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Wordpress Web Application Development

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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787126800

Length 536 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ratnayake

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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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

Time for action

In this chapter, we discussed some of the advanced techniques in WordPress themes. Developers who don't have any exposure to advanced application development with WordPress might find it a bit difficult to understand these techniques. Therefore, I suggest you to try the following tasks to get familiar with the advanced theme creation techniques:

Automate the process of frontend menu item creation. The admin should be able to add menu items to multiple navigation menus in a single event or the complete menu should be generated based on permission levels.
Complete the process of marking topics as favorites using AJAX and the necessary WordPress actions.
We implemented user role-based restrictions for menu items. Try to use the same technique to add user role-based restrictions to widgets.

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Authors (1)

Ratnayake

Ratnayake

Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake is a freelance web developer, writer, and open source enthusiast. He has over 9 years of experience in developing WordPress applications and plugins. He develops premium WordPress plugins for individual clients and the CodeCanyon marketplace. User Profiles Made Easy and WP Private Content Pro are the most popular plugins developed by him. Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js was his first book, which was published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the first three editions of WordPress Web Application Development. In his spare time, he likes to read books and spend time with his family

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