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Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework

WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. If you have basic PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experience you can use WordPress to develop fast, scalable, secure, and highly customized web apps, mobile apps, web services, and multisite networks of websites. Along with core WordPress functions and database schema, you’ll learn how to build custom plugins, themes, and services for just about any kind of web or mobile application.

In this updated second edition, Brian Messenlehner and Jason Coleman cover new features and functionality added to WordPress up to version 5.4. All code examples in the book are available on GitHub.

• Compare WordPress with traditional app development frameworks
• Use themes for views and plugins for backend functionality
• Get suggestions for choosing or building WordPress plugins
• Register custom post types (CPTs) and taxonomies
• Manage user accounts and roles, and access user data
• Build asynchronous behaviors with jQuery
• Use WordPress to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android
• Integrate PHP libraries, external APIs, and web service plugins
• Collect payments through ecommerce and membership plugins
• Learn how to speed up and scale your WordPress app
• Extend the WordPress REST API and create custom endpoints
• Learn about WordPress Gutenberg blocks development

From the Publisher

From the Preface

As we write this, WordPress powers 32% of all sites on the internet, and that number is growing. Many developers want to do more with their WordPress sites but feel that they need to jump ship to a more traditional application framework like Ruby on Rails, Symfony, Yii, or Laravel to build “real” web apps. This sentiment is wrong, and we’re here to fix it.

Despite starting out as blogging software and currently existing primarily as a content management system, WordPress has grown into a flexible and capable platform for building web apps. This book will show you how to use WordPress as an application framework to build any web app, large or small.

Who This Book Is For

This book will be most useful for WordPress developers looking to work on heavier applications, and PHP developers with some WordPress experience looking for a PHP-based application framework.

Commercial plugin and theme developers, or anyone working on large distributed WordPress projects, will also find the concepts and techniques of this book useful.

If you are a PHP or language-agnostic developer using another framework and jealous of the large library of WordPress plugins and themes, you may be surprised to learn how well WordPress can work as a general application framework.

Reading and applying the lessons in this book could change your work life for the better.

We assume that readers have an intermediate understanding of general PHP programming. You should also have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, and familiarity with MySQL and SQL queries. Basic understanding of JavaScript and jQuery programming will help with Chapter 9 and any related examples.

Who This Book Is Not For

This book is not for people who want to learn how to use WordPress as an end user. There will be brief introductions to standard WordPress functionality, but we assume that you have already experienced WordPress from a user’s perspective.

This book is not meant for nonprogrammers. While it is possible to build very functional web applications by simply combining and configuring the many plugins available for WordPress, this book is written for developers building their own plugins and themes to power new web apps.

This book will not teach you how to program but rather how to program “the WordPress way.”

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Brian Messenlehner started his career as a software developer for the United States Marine Corps in 2000. Brian is the co-founder of AlphaWeb.com, AppPresser.com, and SchoolPresser.com, all web based companies that specialize in custom WordPress and mobile app development. Brian has been working with WordPress at an expert level since 2008 building custom web and mobile solutions for clients such as TIME Magazine, NBC, Microsoft, Discovery Channel, Constant Contact, Uber, Campbells Soup, HEB, Starbucks, YMCA, Newark New Jersey Public Schools, and The National Park Services, to name a few. Find Brian on Twitter: @bmess

Jason Coleman has been pushing WordPress to its limits for years and has helped launch several startups using WordPress as an application framework. Jason now leads development for Paid Memberships Pro, a membership-focused ecommerce plugin that powers many software as a service companies. Find Jason on Twitter: @jason_coleman

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Product details Paperback: 546 pages Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (December 31, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1491990082 ISBN-13: 978-1491990087 Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 9.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Customer Reviews: Be the first to review this item Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #377 in Web Design (Books) #27 in PHP Programming #179 in Mobile App Development & Programming Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?

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