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WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials

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WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials

Overview of this book

WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for building blogs and general websites. By learning how to develop and integrate your own plugins, you can add functionality and extend WordPress in any way imaginable. By tapping into the additional power and functionality that plugins provide, you can make your site easier to administer, add new features, or even alter the very nature of how WordPress works. Covering WordPress version 3, this book makes it super easy for you to build a variety of plugins.WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is a practical hands-on tutorial for learning how to create your own plugins for WordPress. Using best coding practices, this book will walk you through the design and creation of a variety of original plugins.WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plugins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches in a series of easy-to-follow and informative steps. You will discover how to deconstruct an existing plugin, use the WordPress API in typical scenarios, hook into the database, version your code with SVN, and deploy your new plugin to the world.Each new chapter introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is packed with information, tips, and examples that will help you gain comfort and confidence in your ability to harness and extend the power of WordPress via plugins.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up an SVN repository


If we are going to version our own code, then we need to start with finding a suitable SVN host to house our repository. There are a lot of SVN hosting providers that are free to use, but they often come with limitations regarding the number of users and the amount of disk space offered. You may have to read the fine print before you find one that suits your needs.

For this example, we are going to make use of Google's free code repository at http://code.google.com/hosting (read more information about the project at http://code.google.com). Anyone with a Google account can get a 2048 MB repository quota, as well as a wiki and a ticketing system, but it is a requirement that any submitted code be compatible with an open-source license. This is a free public service, so it's perfect for an open-source project. Anyone can "check out" the code (just like we did earlier when we checked out the WordPress code), but only members you invite to your project will get privileges...