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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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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

Adding custom help pages

As descriptive as field labels can be, a good plugin always needs to be accompanied by a set of documentation to allow users to quickly understand how to activate the plugin and perform the right steps to get the expected results. While a README file is often what developers first think of producing, users almost never read an external file or instructions on the official WordPress plugin page. They just install the plugin and try to figure it out by themselves.

To address this concern, WordPress introduced the ability to create elaborate multi-section help pages right in the plugin's administration pages to enable users to quickly get answers to their questions.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Displaying a confirmation message when options are saved recipe, and the resulting plugin should still be active on your development site. Alternatively, you can get the resulting code (ch3/ch2-page-header-output/ch2-page-header-output...

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