Application goals and target audience

Anyone who is using the Internet on a day-to-day basis knows the importance of online discussion boards, also known as forums. These forums allow us to participate in a large community and discuss common matters, either related to a specific subject or a product. The application developed throughout this book is intended to provide a simple and flexible forum management application using a WordPress plugin with the goals of:

• Learning to develop a forum application
• Learning to use features of various online forums
• Learning to manage a forum for your product or service

This application will be targeted towards all the people who have participated in an online forum or used a support system of a product they purchased. I believe that both output of this application and the contents of the book will be ideal for PHP developers who want to jump into WordPress application development.