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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788291187
Length 386 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Yannick Lefebvre Yannick Lefebvre
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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

Creating a README file for your plugin

If you look at any plugins on the official WordPress repository, you will see that their page contains a lot of information, including a description of the extension, a list of frequently asked questions, and installation notes. As you may have noticed from the work that we have done so far, this data does not reside in the main plugin's code file. Instead, the official WordPress repository looks for this information in a specially formatted readme.txt file that needs to be included with the plugin.

This recipe shows how to create a readme.txt file for the Book Reviews plugin that we created in Chapter 4, The Power of Custom Post Types.

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