Using WordPress for Web Application Development

Now more than ever, developers and designers are beginning to see the potential for using WordPress as a way to build web applications.

By that, I mean that the community is beginning to see that WordPress can be used for more than blogging and more than just content management: Instead, it can be used to power database-backed applications that run within the context of the web browser.

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WordPress for Web App Development: Rethinking Architecture
In this series, we're in the process of talking about how we can build web applications using WordPress. And though this isn't a technical series in which...
Tom McFarlin
2 Dec 2013
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WordPress for Web App Development: The Conceptual Model
With people beginning to realize WordPress' potential as an application foundation rather than just a content management system or a blogging platform, this...
Tom McFarlin
5 Dec 2013
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WordPress for Web App Development: User Management
Throughout this series, we've been taking a look at how WordPress can serve as a foundation for web application development. The thing is, up to this...
Tom McFarlin
16 Dec 2013
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WordPress for Web App Development: Sessions
In this series, we're taking a look at how it's possible to build web applications using WordPress. Thus far, we've talked about how WordPress is a...
Tom McFarlin
19 Dec 2013
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WordPress for Web App Development: Saving Data
When it comes to the web, almost any application that runs within your browser is backed by a data store of some type. Usually, these data stores are in the...
Tom McFarlin
6 Jan 2014
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