WordPress web application development : build rapid web applications with cutting-edge technologies using WordPress / Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratnayake, Rakhitha Nimesh, author.

Series:

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

WordPress (Electronic resource).

Blogs.

Web sites--Design.

Web sites.

Blogs--Design.

Blogs--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Third edition.

Other Title:

Build rapid web applications with cutting-edge technologies using WordPress

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh: 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

Summary:

Learn in easy stages how to rapidly build leading-edge web applications from scratch. About This Book Develop powerful web applications rapidly with WordPress Explore the significant features and improvements introduced in WordPress 4.7 by learning the numerous tips and techniques in this book. Unleash the power of REST API endpoints to make your interaction with websites new and innovative. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at WordPress developers and designers who want to develop quality web applications within a limited time frame and maximize their profits. A prior knowledge of basic web development and design is assumed. What You Will Learn Develop extendable plugins with the use of WordPress features in core modules Develop pluggable modules to extend the core features of WordPress as independent modules Manage permissions for a wide range of content types in web applications based on different user types Follow WordPress coding standards to develop reusable and maintainable code Build and customize themes beyond conventional web layouts Explore the power of core database tables and understand the limitations when designing database tables for large applications Integrate open source modules into WordPress applications to keep up with the latest open source technologies Customize the WordPress admin section and themes to create the look and feel of a typical web application In Detail 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 applic...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: WordPress as a Web Application Framework

WordPress as a CMS

WordPress as a web application framework

The MVC versus event-driven architecture

Simplifying development with built-in features

User management

Media management

Template management

Database management

Routing

XML-RPC API

REST API

Caching

Scheduling

Plugins and widgets

Themes

Actions and filters

The admin dashboard

Identifying the components of WordPress

The role of WordPress themes

Structure of a WordPress page layout

Customizing the application layout

The role of the admin dashboard

Posts and pages

Users

Appearance

Settings

The role of plugins

The role of widgets

A development plan for the forum management application

Application goals and target audience

Planning the application

User roles of the application

Planning application features and functions

Understanding limitations and sticking to guidelines

Building a question-answer interface

Prerequisites for building a question-answer interface

Creating questions

Customizing the comments template

Changing the status of answers

Saving the status of answers

Generating a question list

Enhancing features of the questions plugin

Customizing the design of questions

Categorizing questions

Approving and rejecting questions

Adding star rating to answers

Summary

Chapter 2: Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features

Introduction to user management

Preparing the plugin

Getting started with user roles

Creating application user roles

The best action for adding user roles.

Knowing the default roles of WordPress

Choosing between default and custom roles

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Removing existing user roles

Understanding user capabilities

Creating your first capability

Understanding default capabilities

Registering application users

Implementing frontend registration

Shortcode implementation

Pros and cons of using shortcodes

Page template implementation

Pros and cons of page templates

Custom template implementation

Building a simple router for a user module

Creating the routing rules

Adding query variables

Flushing the rewriting rules

Controlling access to your functions

The advantages of using the do_action function

Creating custom templates

Designing the registration form

Planning the registration process

Handling registration form submission

Exploring the registration success path

Automatically logging in the user after registration

Activating system users

Creating a login form in the frontend

Handling login form submission

Checking whether we implemented the process properly

Essential user management features for web applications

Frontend login and registration

Custom profile fields

Private data

Search and member list

Frontend profile

Implementing user management features with popular plugins

BuddyPress

User Profiles Made Easy

User Role Editor

Time to practice

Chapter 3: Planning and Customizing the Core Database

Understanding the WordPress database

Exploring the role of existing tables

User-related tables

Post-related tables

Term-related tables

Other tables

Adapting existing tables in web applications

Scenario 1 - an online shopping cart

Scenario 2 - a hotel reservation system.

Scenario 3 - a project management application

Extending the database with custom tables

Planning the forum application tables

Types of table in web applications

Creating custom tables

Querying the database

Querying the existing tables

Inserting records

Updating records

Deleting records

Selecting records

Querying the custom tables

Working with posts

Extending the WP_Query class for applications

Introduction to WordPress query classes

The WP_User_Query class

The WP_Comment_Query class

Other query classes

Limitations and considerations

Transaction support

Post revisions

How do you know whether to enable or disable revisions?

Autosaving

Using meta tables

Chapter 4: Building Blocks of Web Applications

Introduction to custom content types

The role of custom post types in web applications

Planning custom post types for an application

Forums

Topics

Implementing custom post types for a forum application

Implementing the custom post type settings

Creating forum and topic classes

Assigning permissions to forums and topics

Creating custom taxonomies for topic categories and topic tags

Assigning permissions to the topic tags

Introduction to custom fields with meta boxes

What is a template engine?

Building a simple custom template loader

Creating your first template

Comparing the template loader and template engine

Persisting custom field data

Customizing custom post type messages

Introduction to post type templates

Creating and using a post type template

Introducing custom post type relationships

Pods framework for custom content types

Should you choose Pods for web development?

Implementing custom post type features with popular plugins

Custom Post Type UI.

Toolset Types

Chapter 5: Implementing Application Content Restrictions

Introduction to content restrictions

Practical usage of content restrictions

The role of membership in content restrictions

Understanding restriction levels

User roles-based restrictions

User groups-based restrictions

Membership plans-based restrictions

Unique password-based restrictions

Implementing content restrictions in posts/pages

Shortcode-based restrictions

Individual post/page restrictions

Creating a meta box for topic restrictions

Saving topic restriction settings

Verifying individual post/page restrictions

Site lockdown

Enabling restrictions on WordPress core features

Restrictions on posts

Restrictions on searches

Restrictions on menus

Restrictions on widgets

Restrictions on archives

Supplementary content restriction types and techniques

Restrictions on custom generated content

Attachment protection

Social Locker

E-mail subscription

Private page

Useful plugins for content restrictions

Restrict Content

WP Private Content Plus

Membership 2

Chapter 6: Developing Pluggable Modules

A brief introduction to WordPress plugins

Understanding the WordPress plugin architecture

WordPress plugins for web development

Creating reusable libraries with plugins

Planning the template loader plugin

Using the template loader plugin

Handling plugin dependencies

Extensible plugins

Extending plugins with WordPress core actions and filters

Creating the extensible file uploader plugin

Converting file fields with jQuery

Integrating the media uploader to buttons

Extending the file uploader plugin

Customizing the allowed file types

Saving and loading topic files.

Extending plugins with custom actions and filters

Pluggable plugins

Tips for using pluggable functions

Tips for developing extendable plugins

Chapter 7: Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends

Understanding the admin dashboard

Customizing the admin toolbar

Removing the admin toolbar

Managing the admin toolbar items

Customizing the main navigation menu

Creating new menu items

Adding features with custom pages

Building options pages

Creating a custom layout for options pages

Building an application options panel

Using the WordPress options API

Using feature-packed admin list tables

Working with default admin list tables

The post list

Creating custom actions for custom posts

Creating custom filters for custom post types

Creating custom post status links

Displaying custom list columns

The user list

The comments list

Building extended lists

Using the admin list table for forum topics

Step 1 - defining the custom class

Step 2 - defining the instance variables

Step 3 - creating the initial configurations

Step 4 - implementing the custom column handlers

Step 5 - implementing the column default handlers

Step 6 - displaying the checkbox for records

Step 7 - listing the available custom columns

Step 8 - defining the sortable columns of list

Step 9 - creating a list of bulk actions

Step 10 - retrieving the list data

Step 11 - adding a custom list as a menu page

Step 12 - displaying the generated list

Managing the subscribe and unsubscribe status

Adding content restrictions to admin list tables

An awesome visual presentation for admin screens

Using existing themes

Using plugin-based third-party admin themes

Creating your own admin theme

The responsive nature of the admin dashboard.

Supplementary admin dashboard features.

Notes:

Previous edition published: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2017).

OCLC:

990784726