After conducting extensive research on the Internet, I have compiled a comprehensive list of books specifically curated for advanced WordPress developers. This collection is aimed at providing in-depth knowledge and valuable insights into advanced WordPress development.
Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework 2nd Edition
If you are a developer and want to develop web apps with WordPress, then this book is for you. If you know basic PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript experience you can use WordPress to develop fast, scalable, secure, and customized web apps, mobile apps, web services, and multisite networks of websites. Along with core WordPress functions and database schema, you’ll learn how to build custom plugins, themes, and services for just about any kind of web or mobile application. All code examples in the book are available on GitHub.
Some main things to get from this book:
- Manage user accounts and roles, and access user data
- Use WordPress to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android
- Integrate PHP libraries, external APIs, and web service plugins
- Collect payments through ecommerce and membership plugins
- Learn how to speed up and scale your WordPress app
- Extend the WordPress REST API and create custom endpoints
- Learn about WordPress Gutenberg blocks development
Professional WordPress Plugin Development 2nd Edition
The updated Professional WordPress Plugin Development addresses modern plugin development for WordPress. WordPress plugins are the software that can extend or enhance CMS functionality if you’re using WordPress to create and manage websites. This book guides you on writing plugins for WordPress sites to share or sell to other users.
The second edition of Professional WordPress Plugin Development covers the building of advanced plugin development scenarios. It discusses the plugin framework and coding standards as well as dashboards, settings, menus, and related application programming interfaces (APIs). Also, it talks about different topics including security, performance, data validation, and SQL statements.
Some main things to get from this book:
- Understand Block Editor/Gutenberg, JS/React, PHP, and the REST API
- Creating custom dashboard menus and plugin settings
- Work with users and user data
- Performance and security considerations
WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook, 3rd Edition
Create plugins for WordPress through detailed recipes that cover the creation of shortcodes, custom post types, and custom blocks, integrate data from external sources, and do much more with this recipe-based guide. This third edition contains new recipes and up-to-date code samples, including new chapters on creating custom blocks for the block editor and integrating data from external sources. From one chapter to the next, you’ll learn how to create plugins of varying complexity, ranging from a few lines of code to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities. Link
Some main things to get from this book:
- Discover action and filter hooks, which form the basis of plugin creation
- Explore the creation of administration pages and add new content management sections through custom post types and custom fields
- Add new components to the block editor library
- Fetch, cache, and regularly update data from external sources
- Bring in external data sources to enhance your content
- Make your pages dynamic by using JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX and adding new widgets to the platform
- Add support for plugin translation and distributing your work to the WordPress community
Mastering WooCommerce 4: Build complete e-commerce websites with WordPress and WooCommerce from scratch
This book starts with the essentials of building a WooCommerce store. You’ll learn how to set up WooCommerce and implement payment, shipping, and tax options, as well as configure your product. The book also demonstrates ways to customize and manage your products by using SEO for enhanced visibility. As you advance, you’ll understand how to manage sales by using POS systems, outsource fulfillment, and external reporting services.
Some main things to get from this book:
- Extend your WordPress knowledge to build fully functional e-commerce websites using WooCommerce and its plugins
- Implement payment gateway, shipping, and inventory management solutions
- Improve the speed and performance of your websites by optimizing images and caching static information