I’m glad to present about “deserving to be there at the top” at the first WordCamp in Africa in 2023. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect and share my experience with the community. #WordCampEbbs happening now at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center. (UWEC) #WordPress
More updates are coming!
Welcome back, today in the web application development series, part 5 we look at how WordPress makes the task easier than ever before. Previously in part 4 we covered the components that make up web applications, which you can find here if you missed.
Of course they are many tools in contention but of all why WordPress?
Truth be told for over a decade, developers have used and are still using a Model View Controller aka MVC pattern architecture to develop web applications. Giving security, separation of interface from logic, maintainability and scalability as reasons for the pattern’s popularity. Popular web applications providing this architecture are Laravel, cakePHP, CodeIgnitor among others.
WordPress follows a MAP aka Monolithic Architecture Pattern which is defined as, a monolithic application describes a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform by wikipedia.
Not to conclude that MAP methodology is better than MVC in comparison. The fact is that both are good fit for different scenarios. My major reason to use WordPress is to help someone learn an alternative way of powering web applications if they know of another way.
To come up with a fully functional application we shall have develop a theme and plugin, thereby learning about developing a WordPress theme and plugin.
The tutorial will also offer a good opportunity to discover WordPress plugins you might have never heard of.
WordPress comes with
A database
Already available to us is the a small but powerful WordPress database with fewer tables than other systems for which you have to create your own database. WordPress’ consideration to introduce meta tables is one of the best things about it.
User management and authentication
Additionally one of the most hardest part about developing web applications is the authentication system, which can easily be broken if developed poorly. This is what we have to be happy about with WordPress, they provide an easily extendable yet secure authentication system.
Back-end user interface.
For the biggest part of our development we shall engineer the front-end system because WordPress has got us covered with a fully customizable back-end user interface called the WordPress Dashboard.
Let’s tune in next time and get the job done.
Meanwhile you can take a look at Custom post types, custom fields, custom taxonomies, theme and plugin development in WordPress by searching in google. I recommend reading articles of codex.org and wpbeginner.com.
Cheers!
It’s happening for the forth time in Africa, it’s a summit to learn and share a lot of information especially about web technologies, content management systems in particular.
Catch up the recap of the recent CMS Africa Summit 2016 in Kampala at Gems Cambridge International school below.
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When you go to this event you could become an influencer in your niche. You could as well improve the market for your products and services. You could also discover new ideas and ways of executing them. My biggest take away was networking with many new people who love what you love.
Similarly if you attended as a participant there is a lot more to learn, competitions to participate in and win.
In 2017, CMS Africa Summit will happen on 10th and 11th March, 2017 in Abuja at FUNTAJ INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
What’s amazing are the friendly prices of the attendance tickets. Imagine a full day ticket goes for 3000 NGN while a 2 day ticket is at 5000 NGN. Every ticket you get qualifies you to Entrance, Coffee Break, Certificate, and Workshop. What a cheap way to learn, educate, and network.
This year’s theme is empowering technology through opensource. I encourage you to come as individual, or team or group of friends, you won’t be disappointed.
Membership types are attend, speaker and sponsor. Click here to buy a ticket and learn more about the event.
