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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)

Summary

Content restriction is one of the significant features in applications where you have different type of users. We began this chapter by learning the importance and practical usage of content restrictions. Also, we looked at various user levels used in restrictions.

We implemented the most common restriction types on our forum application while understanding how posts can be restricted in various lower and higher levels. The real power of content restrictions comes with the integration of all the features in an application and hence restrictions on built-in WordPress features were discussed.

Finally, we went through the supplementary content restriction features used in modern applications to increase the exposure while identifying plugins that can be used to automate these restrictions without manual development.

In the next chapter, we will see how to use the WordPress plugin beyond conventional use by...