Wordpress Web Application Development(Third Edition)
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Themes and application configurations will be managed in this section. Widgets and theme options will be the important sections related to web applications. Generally, widgets are used in the sidebars of WordPress sites to display information such as recent members, comments, posts, and so on. However, in web applications, widgets can play a much bigger role as we can use widgets to split the main template into multiple sections. Also, these types of widgetized areas become handy in applications where the majority of features are implemented with AJAX.

The theme options panel can be used as the general settings panel of web applications where we define the settings related to templates and generic site-specific configurations.