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WordPress Web Application Development

WordPress Web Application Development

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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WordPress Web Application Development

WordPress Web Application Development

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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.
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Creating a custom API


Custom APIs are essential for adding web application specific behaviors, which goes beyond the generic blogging functionality. We need the implementation for both the server and client to create a custom API. Here, we are going to build an API function that outputs the list of developers in a portfolio application. As usual, we are going to get started by creating another plugin folder named wpwa-xml-rpc-api with the main file named class-wpwa-xml-rpc-api.php.

Let's look at the initial code to build the API server:

class WPWA_XML_RPC_API {
  public function __construct() {
    add_filter('xmlrpc_methods', array($this, 'xml_rpc_api'));
  }
  public function xml_rpc_api($methods) {
    $methods['wpwa.getDevelopers'] = array($this, 'developers_list');
    return $methods;
  }
}
new WPWA_XML_RPC_API();

First, we use the plugin constructor to add the WordPress filter named xmlrpc_methods, which allows us to customize the API functions assigned to WordPress. The preceding filter...

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