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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

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress Web Application Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the WordPress database


Typical full stack web development frameworks don't come with a predefined database structure. Instead, these frameworks focus on the core foundation of an application while allowing the developers to focus on the application-specific features. On the other hand, WordPress provides a preplanned database structure with a fixed set of tables. WordPress is built to function as a content management system, and hence, it can be classified as a product rather than a pure development framework. The WordPress core database is designed to power the generic functionalities of a CMS. Therefore, it's our responsibility to use our skills to make it work as an application development framework.

The WordPress database is intended to work with MySQL, and hence, we need to have a MySQL database set up before installing WordPress. On successful installation, WordPress will create eleven database tables to cater core functionality with the default MySQL table engine.

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