Identifying the components of WordPress

WordPress comes up with a set of prebuilt components, which are intended to provide different features and functionality for an application. A flexible theme and powerful admin features act as the core of WordPress websites, while plugins and widgets extend the core with application-specific features. As a CMS, we all have a pretty good understanding of how these components fit into a WordPress website.

Here our goal is to develop web applications with WordPress, and hence it is important to identify the functionality of these components from the perspective of web applications. So, we will look at each of the following components, how they fit into web applications, and how we can take advantage of them to create flexible applications through a rapid development process:

• The role of WordPress themes
• The role of admin dashboard
• The role of plugins
• The role of widgets