In this article I'm going to walk you through the process of creating Wordpress plugins. First I'm going to talk about some of the basic concepts in Wordpress plugin development like the actions, hooks, and API's that make up Wordpress. Then we're going to build a plugin where we apply some of the concepts and best practices in developing Wordpress plugins.
In order to fully benefit from this tutorial:
- You should have a basic knowledge of PHP
- A running instance of WordPress with access to PHP
- Beginner knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is helpful but not required