So you’ve wrapped your mind around the process of creating WordPress themes, and now you want to take things to the next level? In that case, it’s time to begin learning how to create plugins for WordPress. In this course, we start from the absolute basics, and work our way up to more advanced topics and techniques.
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WordPress Plugin Development Essentials
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Jeffrey Way
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| Hooks | 21m 48s |
| Course Entrance | 48s |
| Make Your Plugin Visible to WordPress | 2m 34s |
| Filter Hooks | 4m 32s |
| Action Hooks | 3m 48s |
| Final Project - Additional Category Links | 10m 6s |
| Shortcodes | 44m 46s |
| Activating the Plugin | 2m 48s |
| The add_shortcode Method | 3m 27s |
| Attributes | 3m 6s |
| Specifying Content | 1m 49s |
| The shortcode_atts Function | 4m 33s |
| Tweets Project - Part 1 | 7m 50s |
| Tweets Project - Part 2 | 10m 17s |
| Tweets Project - Part 3 | 10m 56s |
| Widgets | 46m 53s |
| Introduction to Widgets | 1m 29s |
| Making the Plugin Visible to WordPress | 2m 8s |
| The "Skin" for a Widget | 4m 52s |
| The Form Method | 5m 43s |
| The Widget Method | 4m 31s |
| Registering the Twitter Widget | 1m 58s |
| Creating the Twitter Widget Form | 3m 30s |
| Querying the Twitter API | 6m 45s |
| Regular Expressions | 4m 11s |
| The Transients API | 4m 57s |
| Echoing the Widget's HTML | 3m 28s |
| Completing the Widget | 3m 21s |
| WP_Cron | 22m 55s |
| Schedule Recurring Events | 5m 54s |
| Custom Intervals for Events | 1m 49s |
| Unschedule Events | 3m 10s |
| Create an Options Page | 2m 5s |
| Displaying Scheduled Events | 4m 3s |
| Schedule Single Events | 5m 54s |
| Options and Settings APIs | 46m 40s |
| Chapter Overview | 1m 21s |
| Adding an Options Page | 4m 54s |
| Beginning the Form | 2m 55s |
| Refactoring the Code | 4m 1s |
| The Settings API | 11m 35s |
| Creating the Submit Button | 1m 28s |
| Saving and Updating Options | 5m 10s |
| Uploading and Displaying Images | 7m 57s |
| Saving and Displaying Dropdowns | 5m 10s |
| Testing the Final Product | 2m 9s |
| Custom Post Types | 30m 18s |
| Chapter Overview | 2m 34s |
| Registering a New Post Type | 4m 46s |
| Menu Positioning and Custom Icons | 2m 12s |
| Specifying What the Post Type Supports | 1m 57s |
| Custom Taxonomies | 6m 11s |
| Custom Meta Boxes | 5m 23s |
| Creating a Shortcode for Testing | 6m 31s |
| Course Exit | 44s |
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