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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Yannick Lefebvre
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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Yannick Lefebvre

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Making admin page code ready for translation


While the previous recipe showed how to look up the translation of a text item and return its value for further processing in the plugin code, there are many instances where it is more practical to display the translated content immediately.

This recipe shows how to translate the contents of a simple administration page for immediate display.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Adapting default user settings for translation recipe to have a starting point for this recipe. Alternatively, you can get the resulting code (Chapter 11/ch11-hello-world/ch11-hello-world-v1.php) for that recipe from the code bundle. You should rename the file to ch11-hello-world.php before starting.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to the ch11-hello-world folder of the WordPress plugin directory of your development installation.
  2. Open the ch11-hello-world.php file in a text editor.
  3. Add the following line of code at the end of the file to register a function to be called...