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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)

Pods framework for custom content types

Up until this point, we have explored the advanced usage of WordPress custom post types by considering the perspective of web applications. Although custom post types provide immense power and flexibility for web applications, manual implementation is a time-consuming task with an awful amount of duplicate and complex code. One of the major reasons for using WordPress for web development is its ability to build things rapidly. Therefore, we need to look for quicker and more flexible solutions beyond manual custom post implementations.

Pods is a custom content type management framework, which has been becoming popular among developers in recent years. Most of the tedious functionalities are baked into the framework, while providing us with a simpler interface for managing custom content types. Apart from simplifying the process, Pods provides an extensive list of functionalities...