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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is one of the most rapidly expanding markets on the Web. Learning how to build complex and scalable web applications will give you the ability and knowledge to step into the future of WordPress. WordPress 4.7 introduces some exciting new improvements and several bug fixes, which further improve the entire development process.This book is a practical, scenario-based guide to expanding the power of the WordPress core modules to develop modular and maintainable real-world applications from scratch. This book consistently emphasizes adapting WordPress features into web applications. It will walk you through the advanced usages of existing features such as access controlling; database handling; custom post types; pluggable plugins; content restrictions; routing; translation; caching; and many more, while you build the backend of a forum management application. This book begins by explaining how to plan the development of a web application using WordPress' core features. Once the core features are explained, you will learn how to build an application by extending them through custom plugin development. Finally, you will explore advanced non-functional features and application integration. After reading this book, you will have the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Implementing custom post types for a forum application

In this section, we will extend the plugin developed in Chapter 3, Planning and Customizing Core Database, and implement the custom post type-related functionality. First, we have to create a new file called class-wpwaf-model-manager.php inside the classes directory of the wpwa-forum plugin.

Most web applications will be larger in scale compared to normal websites or blogs. Implementing all custom post functionalities in one file is not the most ideal or practical thing to do. So, our plan here is to keep the initialization and generic configurations in the main file, while separating each of the custom post types into their own class files. Before we go any further, I would like you to have a look at the updated folder structure of the plugin using the following screenshot:

Now, let's go through each of the new files and folders to identify their roles...