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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

By : Ratnayake

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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

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By: Ratnayake

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Overview of this book

WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large audience or build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way. This book explains the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios. You begin by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Then you move into the most important aspects of the theme and plugin development process. Here you will also learn how themes and plugins fit into the website while learning about a range of techniques for extending themes and plugins. With the basics covered, we explore many of the APIs provided by WordPress and how we can leverage them to build rapid solutions. Next, we move on to look at the techniques for capturing, processing, and displaying user data when integrating third-party components into the site design. Finally, you will learn how to test and deploy your work with secure and maintainable code, while providing the best performance for end users.

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Introduction to WordPress Development

Introduction to WordPress development

Setting up the development environment

Understanding the role of the WordPress file and directory structure

A brief overview of WordPress coding standards

Summary

Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval

Introduction to the WordPress database

Understanding the role of built-in database tables

Understanding the importance of database usage

How to track database usage in WordPress

Tracking database usage of common WordPress features

Overview of the multisite database structure

Creating and managing custom tables

Executing basic CRUD operations on existing tables

Executing basic CRUD operations on custom tables

Summary

Designing Flexible Frontends with Theme Development

Technical requirements

Introduction to WordPress themes

Understanding the role of themes in development

Understanding built-in theme components

Getting started with developing themes

Working with the WordPress theme template hierarchy

Conditionally changing template design and content

Summary

Building Custom Modules with Plugin Development

Technical requirements

Understanding the role of plugins

Creating your first plugin

Exploring the life cycle of a plugin

Developing a post attachments plugin

Identifying the advantages of custom plugin development as a developer

Guidelines for building quality plugins

Summary

Extending Plugins with Addons, Filters, and Actions

Technical Requirements

Introduction to addons

Creating addons for plugins

The WordPress action execution process

Identifying the extendable features of third-party plugins

Customizing third-party plugins

Integrating multiple plugins for a continuous workflow

Summary

Practical Usage of WordPress APIs

Technical Requirements

A brief overview of WordPress APIs

Introducing shortcodes

Building custom shortcodes

Understanding the usage of shortcodes

Managing custom routes with Rewrite API

Building remote connections with REST API

Summary

Managing Custom Post Types and Processing Forms

Technical requirements

Introduction to custom post types

Building an object-oriented plugin

Building custom post types for properties

Introduction to form management

Using a form management plugin

Summary

Discovering Key Modules in Development

Technical requirements

UI components

Integrating jQuery accordion

Steps for integrating UI components

Simplifying development with page builders

Simplifying and customizing admin features

Summary

Enhancing Security, Performance, and Maintenance

Introduction to testing

Securing WordPress sites

Migrating WordPress sites

Maintaining WordPress sites

Summary

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Managing Database Structure, Storage, and Retrieval

The database is the primary location for storing application data. WordPress provides a built-in database with pre-defined tables, compared to traditional web applications, where the database is designed from scratch. Getting used to the pros and cons of the existing database table is the key to developing quality themes and plugins.

In this chapter, we will learn the power and limitations of the existing database tables in Wordpress. You will get an overview of existing database tables and their role, while understanding how data is managed in common functions such as post creation, user creation, media uploads, and so on. You will also learn the uses of custom tables in development, and using the query functions to retrieve data.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: