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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 custom post types for the application


After that brief introduction to custom post types and their role in web applications, we are now going to find the necessary custom post types for our portfolio application. The majority of our applications and data will be based on these custom post types. So let's look at the detailed requirements of a portfolio application.

The main objective of this application is to let developers promote their work to enhance their reputation. So, we are going to target a few important components such as the projects developed, services offered, and articles and books written. Now try to visualize the subsections of each of these components. It's obvious that we can match these components into four custom post types. The following sections illustrate the detailed subcomponents of each of these models.

Projects

Developers or designers could have a list of projects to build their portfolio. Project information can vary based on the type of project. We are...