9 Essential Guides on How to Create Wordpress Plugins
Wordpress plugins are a necessity to any Wordpress blog. Just about every site has written some post on which plugins you need for your blog. Whether its the best SEO plugins or the must need plugins to speed up your blog, you will find many different lists of plugins. But sometimes there just isn’t a plugin that fits what you need. Sometimes you need to install three or four of them to get everything.
Why not create your own plugin? Why not create that plugin and then use it to build traffic for your site? It’s basically a win-win situation for you. You can create a plugin that will not only do everything you need and speed up your site, but also drive more traffic to it. Here are nine guides to help in the development of your very own Wordpress plugin.
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Top 10 Tips for Wordpress Plugin Developers
An article from Mashable with some great tips from Vladimir Prelovac who wrote the book on Wordpress plugin development, literally. In this article he gives some great tips if you are looking to develop a plugin for Wordpress.
Writing a Plugin
If you are looking to develop a plugin for Wordpress, why not visit the Wordpress site? It’s a great a place to get started.
Plugin API
You will need to know the API (application programming interface) if you plan to create a Wordpress plugin. This article goes through different aspects and should be the second step after reading “writing a plugin”.
Function Reference
Wordpress plugins are written with in php and there are many different functions you can use and this is a very comprehensive list from Wordpress.
How to Create a Wordpress Plugin From Scratch
This article shows you how to create a very simple Wordpress plugin from scratch.
How to Write a Wordpress Plugin
One of if not the best guide to creating a Wordpress plugin. This article will take you step-by-step through the writing process. You can either read through each article online or download the pdf file from the site.
The Ultimate Guide to Building a Wordpress Plugin
I don’t know about the ultimate guide, but this article definitely gives some good resources. A few of the links are the same ones you can find here but there is a lot more information as well.
Creating a Custom Wordpress Plugin From Scratch
An amazing article that will guide you through creating your own plugin. Very in depth and a must read if you plan on writing your own.
How to Build a Wordpress Plugin
Another guide on how to build a Wordpress plugin.
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Mar 26th, 2009
March 27th, 2009 at 6:22 am
great article. thank
March 27th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for the comment alex. There are certainly a lot to learn before attempting to write a plugin that many people would like to use, but these articles should help get anyone started.
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