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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

WordPress is a popular, powerful and open Content Management System. Learning to extend its capabilities allows you to unleash its full potential, whether you're an administrator trying to find the right extension, a developer with a great idea to enhance the platform for the community, or a website developer working to fulfill a client's needs. With new recipes to follow the platform’s constant evolution and updated materials based on the latest versions of WordPress 4.x, “WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook” is the perfect companion for plugin developers.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

12h52m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a WordPress user, developer, or a site integrator with basic knowledge of PHP and an interest to create new plugins to address your personal needs, client needs, or share with the community, then this book is for you.

Book content

chapters 12h52m total length

Preparing a Local Development Environment

Plugin Framework Basics

User Settings and Administration Pages

The Power of Custom Post Types

Customizing Post and Page Editors

Accepting User Content Submission

Customizing user data

Creating Custom MySQL Database Tables

Leveraging javascript, jQuery and AJAX scripts

Adding New Widgets to WordPress’ Library

Enabling Plugin Internationalization

Distributing your plugin on wordpress.org

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