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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

WordPress XML-RPC API for web applications


With the latest versions, WordPress API has matured into a secure and flexible solution that easily extends to cater to complex features. It was considered to be an insecure feature that exposes the security vulnerabilities of WordPress, hence, was disabled by default in earlier versions. As of Version 3.5, XML-RPC is enabled by default and the enable/disable option from the admin dashboard has been completely removed. As developers, now we don't have to worry about the security risks identified in earlier releases.

The existing APIs mainly focus on addressing functionalities for blogging and CMS related tasks. In web applications, we can make use of these API functions to build an API for third-party applications and users. The following list contains the existing components in the WordPress API:

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The complete list of components and their respective API functions can be found in the WordPress codex at http:...