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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

Planning the portfolio application tables


As described in this book, the portfolio management system will make use of the existing tables in every possible scenario. However, it's hard to imagine even an average web application without using custom tables. So, here we are going to identify the possible custom tables for our system. You might need to refer back to the planning section of Chapter 1, WordPress As a Web Application Framework, in order to recollect the system requirements. We planned to create a functionality to allow subscribers to follow developers in the system. Let's discuss the requirements in detail to identify the potential tables.

Developers can build their portfolios with personal info, services, projects, articles, or any other necessary things to demonstrate their skills. Each user will have their own RSS feed containing all the activities within the system. Followers will be allowed to subscribe to multiple developers.

This is a very simple and practical scenario for...