Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (5 May 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449364071
ISBN-13: 978-1449364076
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 behaviours 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.
About the Author
Brian Messenlehner comes from a background of building custom web applications for the US Marine Corps, and he is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com, a WordPress-only development shop. Brian and the team at WDS have built several non-traditional websites and mobile applications using WordPress as a framework. Find him 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
