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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

Introduction to form management


The majority of WordPress sites consist a of few pages about the site, services, or products while having a blog. Among the rest, a high percentage of sites focus on capturing, processing, and displaying user data. So, form management becomes an important aspect in WordPress development. The forms are mostly used as a data capturing method on the frontend, as we use custom post types to capture data in the backend. We can develop our own custom forms in the frontend, or we can automate the process of managing forms by using an existing form management plugin. The choice between custom forms and form plugins depends on the requirements of the site. Let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of using these two methods.

  • Development time: Form plugins provide a rapid development process with drag-and-drop form creation, while handling all the form field features through configurations. On the other hand, custom forms require considerable development...