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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is one of the most rapidly expanding markets on the Web. Learning how to build complex and scalable web applications will give you the ability and knowledge to step into the future of WordPress. WordPress 4.7 introduces some exciting new improvements and several bug fixes, which further improve the entire development process.This book is a practical, scenario-based guide to expanding the power of the WordPress core modules to develop modular and maintainable real-world applications from scratch. This book consistently emphasizes adapting WordPress features into web applications. It will walk you through the advanced usages of existing features such as access controlling; database handling; custom post types; pluggable plugins; content restrictions; routing; translation; caching; and many more, while you build the backend of a forum management application. This book begins by explaining how to plan the development of a web application using WordPress' core features. Once the core features are explained, you will learn how to build an application by extending them through custom plugin development. Finally, you will explore advanced non-functional features and application integration. After reading this book, you will have the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Providing the API documentation

Typically, most popular APIs provide complete documentation for accessing the API methods. Alternatively, we can use a new API method to provide details about all the other API methods and parameters. This allows third-party users to request an API method and get the details about all the other functions.

WordPress uses the API method called system.listMethods for listing all the existing methods inside the API. Here, we will take one step further by providing the parameters of API methods with the complete list.

We can start the process by adding another API method to the xml_rpc_api function, as shown in the following code:

    public function xml_rpc_api($methods) { 
$methods['wpwaf.subscribeToTopics'] = array( $this, 'topic_subscriptions' );
$methods['wpwaf.getForumTopics']= array( $this, 'forum_topics_list' );
$methods...