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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Displaying widget configuration options

Similar to plugin configuration pages, widgets can have one or more options to allow users to specify how some aspects of the component will behave. These options can be configured individually for each instance of a widget that is added to a website layout. To handle all of the logistics around multiple possible widget instances, WordPress actually takes care of most of the data handling and storage tasks.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Creating a new widget in WordPress recipe to have a starting point for this recipe. Alternatively, you can get the resulting code (ch10/ch10-book-review-widget/ch10-book-review-widget-v1.php) from the book's GitHub page and rename the file to ch10-book-review-widget.php. You should also be running the Chapter 4 - Book Reviews plugin. If needed, you can get that plugin's code (ch4/ch4-book-reviews/ch4-book-reviews-v12.php) from the book's GitHub page and Activate it.

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