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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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A brief introduction to WordPress plugins

WordPress offers one of the most flexible plugin architectures, alongside other similar frameworks such as Joomla and Drupal. The existence of over 40,000 plugins in the WordPress plugin directory proves the vital role of plugins. In typical websites, we create simple plugins to tweak the theme's functionalities or application-specific tasks. The complexity of web applications forces us to modularize the functionalities to enhance their maintainability. Most application developers will be familiar with the concept of the open-closed principle.

The open-closed principle states that the design and writing of code should be done in a way that new functionality should be added with minimum changes in the existing code. The design of the code should be done in a way to allow the addition of new functionalities as new classes, keeping as much of the existing code unchanged...

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