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Wordpress Web Application  Development

You're reading from   Wordpress Web Application Development Building robust web apps easily and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787126800
Length 536 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. WordPress as a Web Application Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features 3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database 4. Building Blocks of Web Applications 5. Implementing Application Content Restrictions 6. Developing Pluggable Modules 7. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends 8. Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends 9. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins 10. Listening to Third-Party Applications 11. Integrating and Finalizing the Forum Management Application 12. Supplementary Modules for Web Development 13. Configurations, Tools, and Resources

Final thoughts

WordPress is slowly but surely approaching as a framework for web application development. Developers are getting started on building larger applications by customizing existing modules and features. However, there are a lot of limitations and a lack of resources for web development-related tasks. So, the best practices and design patterns are yet to be defined for building applications with WordPress.

In this book, we developed an application structure, considering the best practices of a general web application development. The WordPress architecture is different from the typical PHP frameworks, and hence this structure might not be the best solution. As developers, we want to drive WordPress into a fully featured web application framework.

In this chapter, we completed the development of the demo forum application for this book. So, feel free to innovate your own application structures and the...

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