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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810777

Length 420 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Yannick Lefebvre

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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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. This includes 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.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Updating page title to include custom post data using plugin filters recipe in Chapter 4, The Power of Custom Post Types, to have a starting point for this recipe. Alternatively, you can get the resulting code (ch4/ch4-book-reviews/ch4-book-reviews-v12.php) for that recipe from the book's GitHub page.