Building Web Apps With WordPress · 2nd Edition

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