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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

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

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

Configuring and setting up WordPress

WordPress is a CMS that can be installed in a few minutes with an easy setup guide. Throughout this book, we are implementing a forum management application with advanced users. This short guide is intended to help you set up your WordPress installation with necessary configurations to be compatible with the features of our application. Let's get started!

Step 1– downloading WordPress

We are using WordPress 4.7.2 as the latest version available at the time of writing this book, so we have to download version 4.7.2 from the official website at http://wordpress.org/download/.

Step 2 – creating the application folder

First, we need to create a folder for our application inside the web root directory. Then extract the contents of the downloaded zip file into the application folder. Finally, we have to provide the necessary permissions to create files inside the application folder. Make sure that you provide write permission for the wp-config.php file before starting...