Creating WordPress Plugins: Fast start for PHP developers
Udemy
Course Summary
Learn all the fundamentals and many of the not-so-obvious aspects of coding WordPress plugins for fun or profit.
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Course Description
You will get a through grounding in the fundamentals of creating WordPress plugins and be shown some of the not-so-obvious techniques that the master coders use.
- If you are a WordPress developer that hasn't got to grips with the plugin system, this is for you.
- If you are a PHP developer that knows a little WordPress and wants to get in to plugin development, this is for you.
- If you are managing WordPress development and want to understand what it takes to get a plugin developed, this is for you.
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Course Syllabus
- Introduction & Overview
- All about this course
- Downloading the course materials
- Creating your own development & testing environment
- WAMP: Apache, mySQL & a WordPress config for Windows
- MAMP: Apache, mySQL & a WordPress config for Mac OS X
- Plugin School 1: A simple shortcode based plugin
- Overview to this shortcode plugin
- Step 1: The world's most basic (but totally useless) plugin
- Step 2: Actually doing something useful
- Step 3: Adding in shortcode parameters
- Step 4: Introducing a class structure
- Step 5: Moving our code in to the class
- Step 6: Adding saveable options
- Step 7: Adding a settings menu
- Step 8: Creating the settings page
- Step 9: Adding in JavaScript validation for our settings page
- Summary of our shortcode plugin
- Plugin School 2: Adapt & extend our capabilities
- Override the theme banner image
- Override the theme CSS
This course is listed under
Open Source
, Development & Implementations
, Data & Information Management
, Operating Systems
and Quality Assurance & Testing
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