WordPress web application development build rapid web applications with cutting-edge technologies using WordPress
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. Unle...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt
2017.
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| Edición: | Third edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630206806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- Summary
- 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
- User-related tables
- Post-related tables
- Scenario 1 - an online shopping cart
- Scenario 2 - a hotel reservation system.
- Scenario 3 - a project management application
- Term-related tables
- Other tables
- 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
- Summary
- 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
- Time to practice
- Summary
- 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
- Time to practice
- Summary
- 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
- Time to practice
- Summary
- 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.
