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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

Template execution process of web application frameworks


Most stable web application frameworks use a flat and straightforward template execution process compared to the extensive process used by WordPress. These frameworks don't come with built-in templates, and hence each and every template will be generated from scratch.

Consider the following diagram of a typical template execution process:

In this process, Initial Request always comes to the index.php file, which is similar to the process used by WordPress or any other framework. It then looks for custom routes defined within the framework. It's possible to use custom routes within a WordPress context, even though it's not used generally for websites or blogs. Finally, Initial Request looks for the direct template file located in the templates section of the framework. As you can see, the process of a normal framework has very limited depth and specialized templates.

Note

Keep in mind that index.php referred to in the preceding section...