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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook. Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS - Second Edition

WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook. Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS - Second Edition

Yannick Lefebvre

Ebook
WordPress is a popular, powerful, and open Content Management System. Learning how 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. 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 few lines of code to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities.
You'll start by using the basic mechanisms provided in WordPress to create plugins and execute custom user code. You will then see how to design administration panels, enhance the post editor with custom fields, store custom data, and modify site behavior based on the value of custom fields. You'll safely incorporate dynamic elements on web pages using 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, you will be able to create WordPress plugins to perform any task you can imagine.
  • 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
  • Title: WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook. Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS - Second Edition
  • Author: Yannick Lefebvre
  • Original title: WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook. Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS - Second Edition
  • ISBN: 9781788299497, 9781788299497
  • Date of issue: 2017-07-26
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_15mu
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing