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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

You're reading from   WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Explore the complete set of tools to craft powerful plugins that extend the world's most popular CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810777
Length 420 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Yannick Lefebvre Yannick Lefebvre
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Preparing a Local Development Environment 2. Chapter 2: Plugin Framework Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: User Settings and Administration Pages 4. Chapter 4: The Power of Custom Post Types 5. Chapter 5: Customizing Post and Page Editors 6. Chapter 6: Extending the Block Editor 7. Chapter 7: Accepting User Content Submissions 8. Chapter 8: Customizing User Data 9. Chapter 9: Leveraging JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Scripts 10. Chapter 10: Adding New Widgets to the WordPress Library 11. Chapter 11: Fetching, Caching, and Regularly Updating External Site Data 12. Chapter 12: Enabling Plugin Internationalization 13. Chapter 13: Distributing Your Plugin on WordPress.org 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1: Preparing a Local Development Environment

Before you start writing your first WordPress plugin, it is important to have a good set of tools in place that will allow you to work locally on your computer and be more efficient in your work. While it is possible to perform some development tasks with the built-in tools that are provided with the operating system, creating a solid local development environment will help you develop plugins quickly and have full control over your server settings to be able to test different configurations.

This chapter proposes a set of free tools that can easily be installed on your computer, regardless of your preferred operating system, to facilitate the development of your future WordPress plugins. These tools include a local web server to speed up page access and avoid sending files constantly to a remote server, a version control system to keep incremental backups of your work, and a code editor to enhance your editing capabilities.

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