Key Features
Learn the foundations of WordPress development and its hook-based architecture
Choose the right components for any development task
Build flexible solutions that works with existing plugins and themes

Book Description
WordPress is the most used CMS in the world and is the ideal way to share your knowledge with a large audience or build a profitable business. Getting started with WordPress development has often been a challenge for novice developers, and this book will help you find your way.

This book explains the components used in WordPress development, when and where to use them, and why you should be using each component in specific scenarios. You begin by learning the basic development setup and coding standards of WordPress. Then you move into the most important aspects of the theme and plugin development process. Here you will also learn how themes and plugins fit into the website while learning about a range of techniques for extending themes and plugins.

With the basics covered, we explore many of the APIs provided by WordPress and how we can leverage them to build rapid solutions. Next, we move on to look at the techniques for capturing, processing, and displaying user data when integrating third-party components into the site design.

Finally, you will learn how to test and deploy your work with secure and maintainable code, while providing the best performance for end users.

What you will learn
Explore the role of themes, plugins, and built-in features in development
Adapt to built-in modules and built-in database structures
Write code for WordPress's hook-based architecture
Build, customize, and integrate WordPress plugins
Extend themes with custom design templates
Capture and process data with built-in features and custom forms
Improve usability with AJAX and third-party components
Manage non-functional aspects, such as security, performance, and migration

Who this book is for
This book is for web developers and site owners who want to build custom websites with WordPress. Basic knowledge of PHP, javascript, HTML and CSS is required to get most out of this book.