Building Web Applications with WordPress. I’ve talked quite a bit about my thoughts on using WordPress for web application development. Specifically, I’ve shared: During the State of the Word 2012, Matt discussed the past, present, and future of WordPress which included WordPress being an “app engine” of sorts. Some time ago, I stumbled across an article by Matthew Eppelsheimer in which he discusses his team using WordPress as just that. Specifically, he says: The WordPress platform essentially manages content and authentication for us, gives us frameworks to build custom UI and our own functionality, and offers extra features in the form of plugins developed by a large community. Interesting, isn’t it? Obviously, I’ve been a fan of treating WordPress as such for some time, but I’ve never really shared how I’ve viewed various features and parts of the API for actually building applications. First off, I want to state that I’m not at all dogmatic about these opinions.
Clean API User Management Model-View-Controller Models Views. Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard – ManageWP.com. Foller.me Analytics for Twitter. Manage WordPress Sites from One Dashboard – ManageWP.com. How to Build a Web Application from Scratch with No Experience. Build an App With WordPress - The compulsory todo list. Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word was very insightful into what was to come of WordPress in 2012. One thing he mentioned would be big, is be WordPress powering apps. With that in mind, there aren’t many posts around that teach you how to make an app. I thought I’d start with the compulsory “How to make a to-do list app using WordPress!” It even works across all platforms- that’s right. Mobile, Tablet and Desktop! There is a Demo page (username: user, password: notes) where you can see and play with what we’ll be creating.
You can download the source theme too, and install it yourself. A bit of Theory Many web app frameworks these days use MVC or MVVM structure. WordPress is a good starting point because it provides a plethora of APIs for us to leverage. The approach we’re going to take is simple. To bring you up to speed The focus of this tutorial isn’t to show you how to design an app, but to build it with AJAX. Data flow in a single page web app Let’s examine the diagram from just above. A guide to using WordPress to build SaaS Web Apps like Hello Bar. Yes, you read that title right: WordPress as a SaaS (Software As A Service) application platform. But wait… WordPress is a blogging platform right – what’s this about building applications?
Well, as it turns out, you can do a whole lot more with WordPress than you may think. Using the power of WordPress and the community around it, we built Hello Bar in about 1 month, monetized it, scaled it and eventually sold it. This is the first article in a series where we’ll be exploring how we used community plugins (as well as our own), custom theming, a good server setup and a little automation to build a full subscription based application using WordPress.
The Plugin Community is Your Friend One of the most powerful things about WordPress is the community around it. Managing Your Users As with any SaaS application, the first thing we needed was a way to manage our users. Securing Your Site Custom Plugins and Themes to Build an Application Experience Managing all the Data Conclusion. Documentation: What is Piklist? • Piklist. How to Allow Users to Submit Posts to Your WordPress Site. Have you ever seen sites that allow users to submit posts or other type of content? Do you want to have user-submitted content on your site? In this article, we will show you how to allow your users to submit posts to your WordPress site without creating a user account. Ofcourse you can require user registration if you like. You will get to moderate the user-submitted content like comments and approve them only if you like it. This method is useful for sites like: galleries, directories, or even blogs that accept guest posts.
Allowing Registered Users to Submit Posts WordPress comes with built in user roles and capabilities which allows you to run a multi-author WordPress site. Users can now register on your WordPress website. Users can now register and login to your website and use the WordPress admin area to submit their posts and content. Now if you don’t want to require user registration, then keep on reading. Allow Users to Submit Posts Without Registering [user-submitted-posts] Let's Make a Web App: Nodepad. Welcome to part 1 of Let’s Make a Web App, a new tutorial series about building a web app with Node. This series will walk you through building a web app with Node, covering all the major areas you’ll need to face when building your own applications.
The app we’re going to build is a web notepad called Nodepad. Not particularly original, but well-defined and easy to understand. Selecting Frameworks and Tools Modern web applications depend on several components: Storage: Relational database, NoSQL Storage library: simple, ORM Web server Package manager Server-side framework Client-side framework Testing libraries Version control Ultimately, the choice is down to context. In this case my criteria for selection will be based on feedback we’ve had about what our readers are interested in, and my own areas of expertise.
Server-Side Building web apps with Node typically involves a framework of some kind. An example of a popular Rails-like framework is Geddy. Not all frameworks are MVC, though. Next. In1.com - Single Page App with Twitter Bootstrap and Node.js.