WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook: Create powerful plugins to extend the world’s most popular CMS

This is a cookbook with step-by-step instructions and code examples required to learn WordPress plugin development easily. 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.

Learn to create plugins for WordPress 4.x to deliver custom projects or share with the community through detailed step-by-step recipes and code examples

Key Features

• Learn how to change and extend WordPress to perform virtually any task
• Explore the plugin API through approachable examples and detailed explanations
• Mold WordPress to your project’s needs or transform it to benefit the entire community

What you will learn

• Discover how to register user callbacks with WordPress, forming the basis of plugin creation
• Explore the creation of administration pages and adding new content management sections through custom post types and custom database tables
• Improve your plugins by customizing the post and page editors, categories and user profiles, and creating visitor-facing forms
• Make your pages dynamic using Javascript, AJAX and adding new widgets to the platform
• Learn how to add support for plugin translation and distribute your work to the WordPress community

Table of Contents

1. Preparing a Local Development Environment
2. Plugin Framework Basics
3. User Settings and Administration Pages
4. The Power of Custom Post Types
5. Customizing Post and Page Editors
6. Accepting User Content Submission
7. Customizing user data
8. Creating Custom MySQL Database Tables
9. Leveraging javascript, jQuery and AJAX scripts
10. Adding New Widgets to WordPress’ Library
11. Enabling Plugin Internationalization
12. Distributing your plugin on wordpress.org

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