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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is one of the most rapidly expanding markets on the Web. Learning how to build complex and scalable web applications will give you the ability and knowledge to step into the future of WordPress. WordPress 4.7 introduces some exciting new improvements and several bug fixes, which further improve the entire development process.This book is a practical, scenario-based guide to expanding the power of the WordPress core modules to develop modular and maintainable real-world applications from scratch. This book consistently emphasizes adapting WordPress features into web applications. It will walk you through the advanced usages of existing features such as access controlling; database handling; custom post types; pluggable plugins; content restrictions; routing; translation; caching; and many more, while you build the backend of a forum management application. This book begins by explaining how to plan the development of a web application using WordPress' core features. Once the core features are explained, you will learn how to build an application by extending them through custom plugin development. Finally, you will explore advanced non-functional features and application integration. After reading this book, you will have the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends

Generally, users who visit web applications don't have any clue about the functionality, accuracy, or quality of the code of the application. Instead, they decide the value of the application based on its user interfaces and the simplicity of using its features. Most expert-level web developers tend to give more focus on development tasks in complex applications. However, the application's design plays a vital role in building the initial user base. WordPress uses themes that allow you to create the frontend of web applications with highly extendable features that go beyond conventional layout designs. Developers and designers should have the capability to turn default WordPress themes into amazing frontends for web applications.

In this chapter, we will focus on the extendable capabilities of themes while exploring the roles of the main theme files for web applications...