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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

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

Customizing the admin toolbar


The admin toolbar is located at the top of the admin screen to allow direct access to the most used parts of your website. Once you log in, the admin toolbar will be displayed on the admin dashboard as well as at the frontend. Typical web applications contain separate access menus for the frontend and backend. Hence, web developers might find it difficult to understand the availability of the admin toolbar at the frontend from the perspective of the functionality as well as the look and feel. In web applications, it's your choice to remove the admin toolbar from the frontend or customize it to provide a useful functionality. In this section, we are going to look at both the methods to simplify your decision on the admin toolbar. First, let's preview the admin toolbar at the frontend with its default settings as shown in the following screenshot:

As usual, we are going to provide these functionalities through a custom plugin. Let's begin by creating the main plugin...