Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake - WordPress Development Quick Start Guide: Build beautiful and dynamic websites for your domain from scratch

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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake is a freelance web developer, writer, and open source enthusiast. He has over 9 years of experience in developing WordPress applications and plugins. He develops premium WordPress plugins for individual clients and the CodeCanyon marketplace. User Profiles Made Easy and WP Private Content Pro are the most popular plugins developed by him. Rakhitha is the creator of WPExpertDeveloper, where he shares his latest WordPress plugins. Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js was his first book, which was published by Packt Publishing. He is also the author of the first three editions of WordPress Web Application Development. In his spare time, he likes to read books and spend time with his family.

Olivier Pons is a high skilled developer who's been building websites for many years. He's a teacher in France: at the University of Sciences of Aix-en-Provence, CESI and three other ones, where he teaches Python, Django, advanced JavaScript, nginx and Apache and Linux. In 2011, he left a full time job as a Php expert to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development. He currently runs a number of web sites, and you will easily find his web development blog if you google for "Olivier Pons". He's currently making a Unity mcq mobile application, which works together with a Django website. He works as teacher, high skilled developer and helps big companies and CTOs in making the best choice for their Web projects.

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WordPress is the most widely used CMS in the world. As a developer, WordPress is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large community as well as build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has been a challenge for novice developers, compared to building everything from scratch in other frameworks. It's very easy to build WordPress sites by connecting bits and pieces without actually knowing what's happening under the hood. Many developers tend to follow this path and face maintenance and security nightmares in the long run. This book is structured to explain the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios.

You will begin this book by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Mastering the built-in database is one of the keys to becoming a expert in WordPress development. In this section, you will learn about the database structure, and examine the data usage of the built-in features and their limitations in order to plan the data needs of your application. Then you will move onto an important topic: the theme and plugin development process. In this section, you will learn how themes and plugins fit into an application while understanding basic to advanced techniques for extending themes and plugins.