Usually, the first step in plugin creation is coming up with a plugin name. We usually want to use a name that is associated with what the plugin does, so we will call this plugin, WP Digg This. WP is a common prefix used to name WordPress plugins.
To introduce the plugin to WordPress, we need to create a standard plugin header. This will always be the first piece of code in the plugin file and it is used to identify the plugin to WordPress.
In this example, we're going to write the code to register the plugin with WordPress, describe what the plugin does for the user, check whether it works on the currently installed version of WordPress, and to activate it.
Create a file called
wp-digg-this.phpin your favourite text editor. It is common practice to use the plugin name as the name for the plugin file, with dashes '-' instead of spaces.Next, add a plugin information header. The format of the header is always the same...