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WordPress Web Application Development

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
Book Image

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

Designing the home page template


We have to create a file named home.php inside the templates folder. At the beginning of the widget creation process, we planned the structure of the home page using a wireframe. Now we need to adhere to the structure while designing the home page, as shown in the following code:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Home Widgets') ) :
endif;

?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

These three lines of code make the complete design and the data for the home page. Usually, every page template contains a WordPress header and footer by using the get_header and get_footer functions. The code used between the header and footer checks for the existence of the dynamic_sidebar function for loading dynamic widget areas. Then, we load the widgetized area created in the Widgetizing application layouts section by using the sidebar name. This area is populated with the widgets assigned in the admin section.

The design...