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Wordpress Web Application  Development

Wordpress Web Application Development

By : Ratnayake
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Wordpress Web Application  Development

Wordpress Web Application Development

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By: 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)
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Introduction to content restrictions

Generally, we refer to information in textual, visual, or aural forms as content in websites. In web applications, we can consider content as anything that is used by the administrators of the application or an application's users. The following are some of the commonly used content types in WordPress applications:

  • Posts and pages
  • Custom post types
  • Widgets
  • Menus

In applications or websites, we can't provide every feature to everyone. So, we need to identify the various types of users in our application and ascertain what each of these user types can do within our application. Creating limitations of what each user can see within our application is referred to as content restrictions or content permissions.

In WordPress, we need to log in to the backend to create a post or change any settings. This is the most basic form of content restriction, where we limit the backend...

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