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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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Using open source plugins for web development

There are hundreds of quality free and premium plugins that can be used extensively in web development. Before using any plugin, you should check the popularity of the plugin, the quality of the code, and the support provided by the plugin developers. In this section, we are going to look at some useful and stable plugins for adding functionality to your web applications:

  • Advanced Custom Fields: User data input, process, and output are the main functionality of most web applications and hence we need custom fields to capture the details. This plugin is the ideal solution to capturing custom data to your posts, pages, and custom post types. This plugin offers over 15 field types and a visually simple data adding process. You can download this plugin and check the available features at https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/.
  • Ninja Forms: ACF plugins allowed...

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