WordPress Web Application Development

Simplifying development with built-in modules

As we discussed in the previous section, the quality of a framework depends on its core modules. The more quality you have in the core, the better it will be for developing quality and maintainable applications. It's surprising to see the availability of a number of WordPress modules directly related to web development, even though it was meant to create websites.

Let's get a brief introduction about the WordPress core modules to see how they fit into web application development:

• User module: The built-in user management module is quite advanced, catering to the most common requirements of any web application. Its user roles and capability handling makes it much easier to control the access to specific ...