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WordPress Web Application Development
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WordPress Web Application Development

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
November 2013
Beginner to intermediate
376 pages
9h
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding limitations and sticking with guidelines

As with every framework, WordPress has its limitations in developing web applications. Developers need to understand the limitations before deciding to choose a framework for application development.

In this section, we are going to learn the limitations while building simple guidelines for choosing WordPress for web development. Let's get started:

  • Lack of support for MVC: We talked about the architecture of WordPress and its support for MVC in one of the earlier sections. As a developer, you need to figure out ways to work with WordPress in order to fit with your web applications. If you are someone who cannot work without MVC, WordPress may not be the best solution for your application.
  • Database ...
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