WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook – Second Edition

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Description

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 turn into it to benefit the entire community

Book Description

WordPress is a popular, powerful, and open Content Management System. Learning how to extend its capabilities lets you unleash its full potential, whether you’re an administrator trying to find the right extension, a developer with a great idea to reinforce the platform for the community, or a website developer working to fulfill a client’s needs. This book shows readers how to navigate WordPress’ vast set of API functions to create high-quality plugins with easy-to-configure administration interfaces.

With new recipes and materials updated for the latest versions of WordPress 4.x, this second edition teaches you how to create plugins of varying complexity ranging from a couple of lines of code to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities.

You’ll start by the usage of the basic mechanisms provided in WordPress to create plugins and execute custom user code. You are going to then see how to design administration panels, reinforce the post editor with custom fields, store custom data, and modify site behavior based on the value of custom fields. You’ll be able to safely incorporate dynamic elements on web pages the usage of scripting languages, and build new widgets that users will be able to add to WordPress sidebars and widget areas.

By the end of this book, it is possible for you to to create WordPress plugins to perform any task you’ll believe.

What You are going to learn

  • Discover how to register user callbacks with WordPress, forming the basis of plugin
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