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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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WordPress Development Quick Start Guide

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large audience or build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way. This book explains the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios. You begin by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Then you move into the most important aspects of the theme and plugin development process. Here you will also learn how themes and plugins fit into the website while learning about a range of techniques for extending themes and plugins. With the basics covered, we explore many of the APIs provided by WordPress and how we can leverage them to build rapid solutions. Next, we move on to look at the techniques for capturing, processing, and displaying user data when integrating third-party components into the site design. Finally, you will learn how to test and deploy your work with secure and maintainable code, while providing the best performance for end users.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building custom post types for properties


We can use custom post types to model any data in a wide range of business categories. In this chapter, we are going to build a property custom post type for real estate listing websites, to illustrate the use of custom post type features. In this section, we will develop features for creating custom post types, assigning custom taxonomies, and using custom fields. 

Creating property custom post types

First, we need to create a separate class for handing property-related features as we are using an object oriented plugin. So, create a new directory called classes inside the main plugin directory, and add a new file called class-wqcpt-property.php. Then, we need to include this file in our plugin and create an object to initialize the features. We need to add the following line inside the includes function of the WPQuick_CPT class to include the file:

require_once WQCPT_PLUGIN_DIR . 'classes/class-wqcpt-model-property.php';

Next, we need to create an...