WordPress is much more than a blogging platform. As this practical guide clearly demonstrates, you can use WordPress to build web apps of any type—not mere content sites, but full-blown apps for specific tasks. If you have PHP experience with a smattering of HTML, CSS, and javascript, you’ll learn how to use WordPress plugins and themes to develop fast, scalable, and secure web apps, native mobile apps, web services, and even a network of multiple WordPress sites. We assume that readers have an intermediate understanding of general PHP programming. You should also have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, and familiarity with MySQL and SQL queries. Basic understanding of javascript and jQuery programming will help with the javascript and AJAX chapter and related examples.