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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

Working with a restructured application


Having completed the restructuring process, we now have to understand the process of creating new functionalities from scratch. So, in this section, we are going to build the Developer List page with an autocomplete search using AJAX. Let's get started with the requirements planning.

There can be many lists within the portfolio management application. So, we need a new rewrite rule for implementing list-based pages. Then, we need a separate template for displaying the data for the developer list. All the existing developers will be displayed in the initial page load. Users can then use the autocomplete textbox to run a search on the developers. The list will be updated on the jQuery keyup event of the textbox to filter the list of developers using the search string.

We have to start the process by adding a new rewriting rule to WordPress. Remember that we merged all the rewriting rules into the manage_routing_rules function of the Template_Router class...