WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

Explore the complete set of tools to craft powerful plugins that extend the world's most popular CMS, 3rd Edition

By: Yannick Lefebvre

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eText | 31 March 2022 | Edition Number 3

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Create plugins for WordPress 6 through detailed recipes that cover the creation of shortcodes, custom post types, and custom blocks, integrate data from external sources, and do much more with this recipe-based guide

Key Features

Create plugins that change and extend WordPress to perform virtually any task
Extend the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and other components with the help of detailed examples and explanations
Mold WordPress to meet your project's needs and create plugins that benefit the entire community

Book Description

WordPress is one of the most widely used, powerful, and open content management system (CMS). Whether you're a site owner trying to find the right extension, a developer who wants to contribute to the community, or a website developer working to fulfill a client's needs, learning how to extend WordPress' capabilities will help you to unleash its full potential. This book will help you become familiar with API functions to create secure plugins with easy-to-use administration interfaces. Complete with new recipes and up-to-date code samples, including a new chapter on the creation of custom blocks for the Block Editor, this third edition WordPress book teaches you how to create plugins of varying complexity ranging from using just a few lines of code to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities. Starting with WordPress' basic mechanism for creating plugins, the book covers recipes to show you how to design administration panels, enhance the post editor with custom fields, store custom data, and even create custom blocks. You'll safely incorporate dynamic elements on web pages using scripting languages, learn how to integrate data from external sources, and build new widgets that can be added to WordPress sidebars and widget areas. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create WordPress plugins to perform almost any task you can imagine.

What you will learn

Discover action and filter hooks which form the basis of plugin creation
Explore the creation of administration pages and add new content management sections through custom post types and custom fields
Fetch, cache, and regularly update external site data
Bring in external data sources to enhance your content
Make your pages dynamic by using JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX and adding new widgets to the platform
Add support for plugin translation and distributing your work to the WordPress community

Who This Book Is For

This book is for WordPress users, developers, and site integrators interested in creating new plugins to address their personal needs, fulfill client requirements, and bring new capabilities to the WordPress community. Basic knowledge of PHP and WordPress is expected.