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If you can write WordPress plug-ins, you can make WordPress do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customise and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Widgets, plug-ins that alter your post output, present custom "views" of your blog, and more.
WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the WordPress API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning WordPress into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of WordPress development.
Each new chapter and each new plug-in introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. This book is written as a guide to take your WordPress skills from the very beginning to the level where you are able to completely understand how WordPress works and how you can use it to your advantage.
WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the WordPress API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning WordPress into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of WordPress development.
Each new chapter and each new plug-in introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. This book is written as a guide to take your WordPress skills from the very beginning to the level where you are able to completely understand how WordPress works and how you can use it to your advantage.
About the Author
Vladimir Prelovac is a WordPress consultant and Internet marketing specialist best known for his numerous contributions to the WordPress community. He specializes in solving web site publishing challenges using the WordPress platform. For Vladimir, WordPress-based development is a full time job about which he happily blogs on his web site www.prelovac.com/vladimir.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought the ebook version of "WordPress Plugin Development Beginner's Guide" through work as I wanted to expand my WordPress skillset for an ongoing project.
I didn't feel the book made any attempt to go into detail about the basics of plugin development and how WordPress uses hooks, functions etc, instead choosing to just share basic examples. There were a few basic coding errors too.
The WordPress codex is much more in depth and I would recommend this as a starting point for developers.
I didn't feel the book made any attempt to go into detail about the basics of plugin development and how WordPress uses hooks, functions etc, instead choosing to just share basic examples. There were a few basic coding errors too.
The WordPress codex is much more in depth and I would recommend this as a starting point for developers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
WordPress has gone from strength to strength since it was released in 2003, and much of its success is due to the open source community's commitment to plugin development. Take a look at the WordPress Plugin Directory, and you'll see thousands of plugins that extend the WordPress core to do almost anything you can imagine.
Packt Publishing's WordPress Plugin Development is written by Vladimir Prelovac, a WordPress expert and developer of WordPress plug-ins such as Smart YouTube and Plugin Central. Part of Packt's Beginners Guide series, the book focuses more on experimentation and learning by doing, and develops 6 real-world plugins throughout its 270 or so pages.
Chapter Overview
1. Preparing for WordPress Development
2. Social Bookmarking
3. Live Blogroll
4. The Wall
5. Snazzy Archives
6. Insights for WordPress
7. Post Types
8. Development Goodies
Aimed at developers who are familiar with PHP, the book wastes little time getting straight into coding. Chapter 1 gives an overview of plugin development, and details the six plugins that are developed throughout the course of the book.
1. Digg This
The first plugin simply shows a Digg button in blog posts. It's a good first plugin, since it shows the reader the fundamental Plugin concepts such as the WordPress API, filters and actions.
2. Live Blogrool
This plugin works at making the basic Blogroll a little bit more exciting. I enjoyed this chapter since it talked about integrating jQuery and AJAX into plugins.
3. The Wall
The Wall is a plugin that creates a shoutbox on your blog's sidebar, where users can leave comments and shouts. This chapter introduces widgets and the WordPress database.
4. Snazzy Archives
This plugin beautifies blog archives, and hooks into posts and the administration panel.
5. Insights
The insights plugin increases blog post writing productivity by offering quick access to common information in the Write Post screen.
6. Post Types
This plugin works closely with the WordPress back-end, and extends the platform's CMS capabilities. Despite WordPress 3.0's core functionality being extended in this area, it's still a useful chapter.
As fantastic as WordPress is, a real sense of power can be gained from extending it. I particularly enjoyed this book, since it got straight `down to business' and focused on the core concepts and practices that enable developers to create reliable, useful plugins.
Packt Publishing's WordPress Plugin Development is written by Vladimir Prelovac, a WordPress expert and developer of WordPress plug-ins such as Smart YouTube and Plugin Central. Part of Packt's Beginners Guide series, the book focuses more on experimentation and learning by doing, and develops 6 real-world plugins throughout its 270 or so pages.
Chapter Overview
1. Preparing for WordPress Development
2. Social Bookmarking
3. Live Blogroll
4. The Wall
5. Snazzy Archives
6. Insights for WordPress
7. Post Types
8. Development Goodies
Aimed at developers who are familiar with PHP, the book wastes little time getting straight into coding. Chapter 1 gives an overview of plugin development, and details the six plugins that are developed throughout the course of the book.
1. Digg This
The first plugin simply shows a Digg button in blog posts. It's a good first plugin, since it shows the reader the fundamental Plugin concepts such as the WordPress API, filters and actions.
2. Live Blogrool
This plugin works at making the basic Blogroll a little bit more exciting. I enjoyed this chapter since it talked about integrating jQuery and AJAX into plugins.
3. The Wall
The Wall is a plugin that creates a shoutbox on your blog's sidebar, where users can leave comments and shouts. This chapter introduces widgets and the WordPress database.
4. Snazzy Archives
This plugin beautifies blog archives, and hooks into posts and the administration panel.
5. Insights
The insights plugin increases blog post writing productivity by offering quick access to common information in the Write Post screen.
6. Post Types
This plugin works closely with the WordPress back-end, and extends the platform's CMS capabilities. Despite WordPress 3.0's core functionality being extended in this area, it's still a useful chapter.
As fantastic as WordPress is, a real sense of power can be gained from extending it. I particularly enjoyed this book, since it got straight `down to business' and focused on the core concepts and practices that enable developers to create reliable, useful plugins.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First things first, I bought the eBook version of this book so I am not totally sure if the process of checking the book for errors in the copy andd the code examples is the same process for an eBook as it is for a normal paperback book.
Based on the assumption that it is then this book contains multiple errors within the code examples - for example the first plugin you try to create is a Digg This button to include in your posts - and the example doesn't work at all for version 2.9.1 of wordpress, so this doesn't really set a good example for the rest of the projects contained in this book.
In the coded examples some of the wordpress functions aren't explained so you aren't sure why you need them - the code examples either aren't complete or have errors that don't allow the code to work.
I would save your money and just research on the internet
Based on the assumption that it is then this book contains multiple errors within the code examples - for example the first plugin you try to create is a Digg This button to include in your posts - and the example doesn't work at all for version 2.9.1 of wordpress, so this doesn't really set a good example for the rest of the projects contained in this book.
In the coded examples some of the wordpress functions aren't explained so you aren't sure why you need them - the code examples either aren't complete or have errors that don't allow the code to work.
I would save your money and just research on the internet
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