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WordPress on .Net Core

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Web design with WordPress and .NET

If you are looking to launch a website for your business, you are probably faced with the question of designing your website with dedicated content management systems or .NET programming? First, I want to talk to you about setting up a website. There are generally two ways to set up and implement a website: 

  • The first method of designing a site uses content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress.
  • The second method of designing a dedicated site using programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, or .NET programming.

This article will compare WordPress and .NET programming and examine the features, advantages, and disadvantages. If you are also planning to launch a website for yourself, reading this article will be helpful.

Ref.:
ertano.com
learn.microsoft.com

Some Approaches to Achieve WordPress-.Net Integration

The integration between dotnet core and WordPress can take place with different approaches. 

  1. Develop a Custom plug-in
    Create a WordPress plug-in that interfaces with an application developed in an alien language, such as, but not limited to, Dot net core, to which it passes the parameters and receives the processing results.
    The dialogue between the two environments can take place in any way since the plug-in is developed ad hoc.
  2. Use a plug-in already available on the site wordpress.org that can communicate in one of the following ways: Json, ODBC, web services, API. So the interface is fixed and the methods of data delivery and premium must be defined
  3. use asp-net dot core as a front-end that integrates directly into WordPress. There are several solutions in this area and we report you
    Technical details
    summary: This project, is a way for me to start that transition. I want to move all public content away from the CMS, into a standalone application based on ASP.NET Core. This way, I will be able to isolate my WordPress backend and have a greater control over my frontend.

Ref:
ndesoft.dk
wpdotnet.com

Where can I use the WordPress ODBC Driver?

Where can I use the WordPress ODBC Driver? 

BI, ETL, & Reporting Tool Integration
ODBC is the most widely supported interface for connecting applications with data. All kinds of BI, Reporting, ETL, Database, and Analytics tools offer the ability to read and write data via ODBC connectivity.

Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
SQL Server
and many more

ref: cdata.com

Technical Insight

How to Install SQL Server on Linux

Introduction:
SQL Server is Microsoft’s  proprietary relational database management software. It supports various operating systems and installation methods, including Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Red Hat, and CentOS.

In this tutorial, we will take you through the step-by-step process of installing and conguring SQL Server on Ubuntu and CentOS 7/Red Hat.

ref.: phoenixnap.com

How to Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

Introduction:
Plugins add extra functionality to your WordPress site over and above what comes with WordPress core. Everything from a booking calendar or animated slider to a full-featured learning management system or online marketplace—you can add them all to your site with plugins.

In this guide, I’ll show you how to create your own WordPress plugin. I’ll show you how to use best practice in plugin development, how to get the code in your plugin to run, and how to structure your plugin’s code and files. I’ll also walk you through the process of creating your first plugin and answer some FAQs.
ref.: webdesign.tutsplus.com

How To Deploy .Net Core Application On Linux

When Microsoft launched their .Net Core framework the key selling point was it is a cross-platform framework, which mean’t that now we can host our .Net application not only on Windows but on Linux too, so let’s see how we can deploy .Net core application on Linux.
ref: c-sharpcorner.com

What is the Microsoft 365 Substrate?

Under the Microsoft 365 we know, there’s a hidden service called the Substrate that manages its data for us. Learn how to us Microsoft 365 Substrate.
references:
techrepublic.com
techcommunity.microsoft.com

Install SQL Server ODBC drivers

Find the drivers for your OS. The search “sql server odbc driver download” returns the following link which contains all information needed to install the ODBC drivers for SQL Server (Windows, Linux and macOS).
ref: wpdataaccess.com

Install SQL Server JDBC drivers

Find the drivers for your OS. The search “sql server jdbc driver download” returns the following link which contains all information needed to install the JDBC drivers for SQL Server (Windows, Linux and macOS).
ref: wpdataaccess.com

Connecting MSAccess to WP Database 

With the CONNECT storage engine you can query your Access database from WordPress, but you cannot query your WordPress database from Access. To query your WordPress database from Access, you would need to take additional steps. This is outside the scope of WP Data Access and usually not possible if you are ISP hosted as most ISPs block database access from other IP addresses.
ref.: wordpress.org

WP-DBManager  

Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database.
GENERAL USAGE

  1. Activate WP-DBManager Plugin
  2. The script will automatically create a folder called backup-db in the wp-content folder if that folder is writable. If it is not created, please create the folder and ensure that the folder is writable
  3. Open Folder: wp-content/backup-db
  4. If you are on Apache, move the htaccess.txt file from Folder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to Folder: wp-content/backup-db/.htaccess if it is not there already
  5. If you are on IIS, move the Web.config.txt file from Folder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to Folder: wp-content/backup-db/Web.config if it is not there already
  6. Move index.php file from Folder: wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to Folder: wp-content/backup-db/index.php if it is not there already
  7. Go to WP-Admin -> Database -> DB Options to configure the database options
    ref: wordpress.org

Connect to external APIs 

To connect WordPress to external APIs to send data and get data from an unlimited number of 3rd party REST APIs. You can then format and display the returned data on your WordPress website using a short code or a template tag.
ref.:
wordpress.org
wpgetapi.com
rapidapi.com
positiwise.com
webeminence.com
plugins.miniorange.com

Last Updated on July 12, 2024