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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Yannick Lefebvre
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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

4.4 (12)
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.
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Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "create a text file called uninstall.php in the ch8-bug-tracker directory and open it in a code editor."

A block of code is set as follows:

add_filter( 'the_generator', 'ch2gf_generator_filter', 10, 2 );

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

 echo '<tr style="background: #FFF">'; 
echo '<td><input type="checkbox" name="bugs[]" value="';
echo intval( $bug_item['bug_id'] ) . '" /></td>';
echo '<td>' . $bug_item['bug_id'] . '</td>';

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Here, we added an inner grid with two full-size columns; one for the Price of an item and the other will wrap up the Quantity component."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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