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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

You're reading from WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788291187

Length 386 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Yannick Lefebvre

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Preparing a Local Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Plugin Framework Basics

3. User Settings and Administration Pages

4. The Power of Custom Post Types

5. Customizing Post and Page Editors

6. Accepting User Content Submissions

7. Customizing User Data

8. Creating Custom MySQL Database Tables

9. Leveraging JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Scripts

10. Adding New Widgets to the WordPress Library

11. Enabling Plugin Internationalization

12. Distributing Your Plugin on wordpress.org

Preparing a Local Development Environment

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

Installing a web server on your computer
Downloading and configuring a local WordPress installation
Creating a local Subversion repository
Importing initial files to a local Subversion repository
Checking out files from a Subversion repository
Committing changes to a Subversion repository
Installing a dedicated code/text editor

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Authors (1)

Lefebvre

Lefebvre

Yannick Lefebvre is a plugin developer who has created multiple plugins on the official WordPress repository. His first creation, Link Library, is used on thousands of sites worldwide. With a background in computer science, he wrote his first plugin in 2004 and quickly started sharing his creations with the community. He is actively involved in the Montreal WordPress community, has presented multiple times at WordCamp Montreal, and offers custom plugin development services. By day, Yannick works for CM Labs Simulations, a company providing software tools and simulators for vehicles and heavy equipment.

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