Vladimir Prelovac & Vladimir Prelovac: WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide [EPUB]

If you can write Word Press plug-ins, you can make Word Press do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method Word Press offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of Word Press plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Widgets, plug-ins that alter your post output, present custom ‘views’ of your blog, and more. Word Press Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern Word Press development. The book uses real and published Word Press plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the Word Press API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning Word Press into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of Word Press development. Each new chapter and each new plug-in introduces different features of Word Press and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. This book is written as a guide to take your Word Press skills from the very beginning to the level where you are able to completely understand how Word Press works and how you can use it to your advantage.