Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. As this practical guide clearly demonstrates, you can use WordPress to build web apps of any type--not mere content sites, but full-blown apps for specific tasks. If you have PHP experience with a smattering of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you'll learn how to use WordPress plugins and themes to develop fast, scalable, and secure web apps, native mobile apps, web services, and even a network of multiple WordPress sites.
The authors use examples from their recently released SchoolPress app to explain concepts and techniques throughout the book. All code examples are available on GitHub.
- Compare WordPress with traditional app development frameworks
- Use themes for views, and plugins for backend functionality
- Get suggestions for choosing WordPress plugins--or build your own
- Manage user accounts and roles, and access user data
- Build asynchronous behaviors in your app with jQuery
- Develop native apps for iOS and Android, using wrappers
- Incorporate PHP libraries, external APIs, and web service plugins
- Collect payments through ecommerce and membership plugins
- Use techniques to speed up and scale your WordPress app
Synopsis
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