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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

Why choose open source libraries?


Open source frameworks and libraries are taking control in web development. On the one hand, they are completely free and allow developers to customize and create their own versions. On the other hand, large communities are building around open source frameworks. Hence, these frameworks are improving in leaps and bounds at an increasing speed, providing developers with more stable and bug-free versions. WordPress uses dozens of open source libraries and there are thousands of open source plugins in its plugins directory. Therefore, it's important to know how to use these open source libraries in order to make our lives easier as developers. Let's consider some of the advantages of using stable open source products:

  • Large community support

  • Ability to customize existing features by changing source code

  • No fees are involved based on per site or per person licensing

  • Usually reliable and stable

  • Possibility of having more features through forked versions

These reasons...