Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework

First, I'm a developer. I've been building WordPress web applications for 6 years, and marketing sites with WordPress before that. Mostly I've been creating intranet applications for corporations. These have been highly customized web apps, with a content management core. In short, I'm the person this book was written for, albeit probably more experienced than most. I bought this book thinking that if it didn't have much that I didn't already know, I'd send it back. Well I'm keeping it! Every page in this volume has at least one thing that I didn't know, or had read but didn't think about much. Much of it is easily available in the WordPress docs, but nevertheless, this is a good reference. Its reasonably thorough. The chapter on ecommerce might not tell you absolutely everything you need to know about designing an ecommerce site (it would need a second volume for that) but it doesn't have any bad advice, and certainly gets you going in the right direction. It does cover a lot of ground in 500 pages. But there is no fluff, and not a lot of code. Its not a "cookbook". To use it, you will have to think for yourself, and apply ideas from this book to your solution to your application.

This book goes over the top-level concepts for building a web application in WordPress. It goes over many top-level concepts and goes into a lot of theory about how to structure WordPress and turn it into what you want, whether it is a general website with some advanced functionality, a structured and controlled WordPress site, or using WordPress as an actual app platform. The writers behind the book are geniuses and on top of their game, so there's great anecdotal advice sprinkled throughout. I would highly recommend this book if you are getting started with WordPress and web apps, or are wanting to solidify your WordPress knowledge with expert authors.

I liked the examples in the book and the code examples. I was able to use them as a framework for a lot of the stuff I am working on.

I Look forward to the next edition. Brain, when can we expect the next edition? Also, what other WP Books would you recommend to programmer just getting started with WordPress?

WordPress is not usually handled as a full applications development topic. This is the first and best of any tutorials or information that I've found concerning this topic. Do not use it as a stand-alone. I suggest visiting Digital Ocean's library of tutorials on the subject to handle the WordPress installation process. After that, delve deeply into this book and use it as a guide into how to get WordPress to become a real application framework.

This book is an easy read and covers a wide range of Wordpress topics, everything from building plugins to building mobile apps. It also has a ton of great plug-in and library recommendations.

I'm learning lots about Wordpress from this book, but there's at least one error in nearly every code example that is apparent just from the context of the book. Sloppy little things like mentioning which keys of an object will be included only to be directly followed up with a code example where a different key is used.

Great info