Final thoughts

WordPress is slowly but surely becoming a trend in web application development. Developers are getting started on building larger applications by customizing existing modules and features. But there are a lot of limitations and a lack of resources for web development-related tasks. So, the best practices and design patterns are yet to be defined for building applications with WordPress.

In this book, we developed an application structure considering the best practices of general web application development. WordPress architecture is different from typical PHP frameworks, and hence this structure might not be the best solution. As developers, we want to drive WordPress into a fully-featured web application framework. So feel free ...

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