Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework

Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework

<div><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><ul><li>Compare WordPress with traditional app development frameworks</li><li>Use themes for views, and plugins for backend functionality</li><li>Get suggestions for choosing WordPress plugins—or build your own</li><li>Manage user accounts and roles, and access user data</li><li>Build asynchronous behaviors in your app with jQuery</li><li>Develop native apps for iOS and Android, using wrappers</li><li>Incorporate PHP libraries, external APIs, and web service plugins</li><li>Collect payments through ecommerce and membership plugins</li><li>Use techniques to speed up and scale your WordPress app</li></ul></div>