WordPress: Creating Custom Widgets and Plugins

By: Drew Falkman.

It was released on. 11/4/2010

This is the length of the story. 3h 51m

Description:

In the book, Drew Falkman teaches developers how to create custom features for the website. This course starts by installing and setting up WP 3.0 on both Mac and Windows, then provides an in-depth look at tasks related to these add-ons: installing and administering, building and customizing, creating editable options and database tables, working with posts and pages, and utilizing jQuery and AJAX Adding security and localizing the interface are some of the topics covered in the tutorials. The course has exercise files.

Topics include:

Installation of WPI and MAMP server solutions. Administering the website. Hooks are introduced. The PHP is being written for a project. The template tags and shortcode are used. A new widget is being built. An admin interface is created. TheWordPress database can be accessed. There are posts and pages that use jquery and ajax. It’s important to register and promote the plugins.

Contents:

The introduction Welcome. The exercise files are being used.

1. Getting Started is 23:44. The overview of the website. WPI can be installed on Windows. MAMP can be installed on the Mac. Installing and configuring a website. WordPress 3.0 is compared with previous versions. Setting up a development environment.

2. Understanding the basics of a theme. Exploring the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of the theme of Administering plugins from the admin. Exploring where they live. There is an introduction to hooks.

3. 39:28 is the amount of time it takes to build a WordPress Plugin. The file is called the Plugin PHP file. More on hooks: actions and filters. Installation and activation. Writing an activation code. Writing an action. A filter is being written. There are pluggable functions. Writing a pluggable function. Using template tags. The shortcode was introduced at 05:26.

4. It is possible to use and createWordPress Widgets. There are Widgets and the WordPress Widgets SubPanel. There is a comparison of widgets and plugins. It is possible to use and modify built-inwidgets. A new widget is being created. The register and writing the constructor are related. The configuration of widgets is being enabled.

5. There are Plugin Options and Administration. Creating an admin interface. Saving data to a database. Form submission with nonces is secured. There are options editing post-WordPress. Integrating with the admin menus. There is a dashboard for the WP admin. Existing options and option editing pages can be used. It is possible to use jquery and ajax for administration.

6. The WordPress database is being used. Accessing the database. The built-in schema is used. Accessing data using a database. Creating new tables. The data is being inserted.

7. There is a loop, posts, and pages. Introducing the loop. WP_Query is being used. There are custom filters and sticky posts. It is possible to use jquery and ajax for posts and pages.

There are 8. The process of creating a theme for the WordPress website. It’s important to register and promote plugins. Creating an uninstall function. There are backward compatibility issues.

There are 9. 15:03 is Security and Extensibility. Understanding security issues Is it possible to internationalize your plugin?

The conclusion was00:18. There is a goodbye at 00:18.

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