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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

Integrating and structuring a portfolio application


Throughout the first nine chapters, we implemented the functionality of the developer portfolio management system using several independent plugins. While developing, we identified the pitfalls of creating a large number of plugins for an application. Here are some of the issues we faced with multiple plugin architecture:

  • Reusable functions and libraries had to be duplicated inside many plugins

  • Separation of concerns was scattered in multiple places

  • Difficulty in understanding the execution flow

So, now we need to restructure the application to resolve the preceding issues and build a solid foundation to develop any type of web application with WordPress. We will be going through a step-by-step process to refactor the complete application from scratch. Let's get started.

Step 1 – deactivating all the plugins used in this book

In this process, we are going to integrate all the plugins into a standalone plugin for our portfolio application, and...