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WordPress Web Application Development

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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WordPress Web Application Development

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

Developing WordPress-powered websites is one of the standout trends in the modern web development world. The flexibility and power of the built-in features offered by WordPress has made developers turn their attentions to the possibility of using it as a web development framework. This book will act as a comprehensive resource for building web applications with this amazing framework. "WordPress Web Application Development" is a comprehensive guide focused on incorporating the existing features of WordPress into typical web development. This book is structured towards building a complete web application from scratch. With this book, you will build an application with a modularized structure supported by the latest trending technologies. "Wordpress Web Application Development" provides a comprehensive, practical, and example-based approach for pushing the limits of WordPress for web applications beyond your imagination. This book begins by exploring the role of existing WordPress components and discussing the reasons for choosing WordPress for web application development. As we proceed, more focus will be put into adapting WordPress features into web applications with the help of an informal use-case-based model for discussing the most prominent built-in features. While striving for web development with WordPress, you will also learn about the integration of popular client-side technologies such as Backbone, Underscore, and jQuery, and server-side technologies and techniques such as template engines, RSS feeds, Open Auth integration, and more. After reading this book, you will possess the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames with the crucial advantage of benefitting low-budget and time-critical projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Our main goal was to find out how WordPress fits into web application development. We started this chapter by identifying the CMS functionalities of WordPress. We explored the features and functionalities of popular full stack frameworks and compared them with the existing functionalities of WordPress.

Then we looked at the existing components and modules of WordPress and how each of these components fit into a real-world web application. We also planned the portfolio management application requirements and identified the limitations in using WordPress for web applications.

Finally, we converted the default interface into a question-answer interface in a rapid process using the existing functionalities.

By now, you should know how to:

  • Decide whether to choose WordPress for your web application

  • Visualize how your requirements fit into the components of WordPress

  • Identify and minimize the limitations

In the next chapter, we are going to start the development of the portfolio management application with the user module. Before we go there, I suggest you do some research on user management modules of other frameworks and look at your previous projects to identify the functionalities.