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Professional WordPress Plugin Development

by Brad Williams (Author), Ozh Richard (Author), Justin Tadlock (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars (91)
As one of the most popular open source content management systems available today, WordPress boasts a framework that allows you to easily customize and extend it through plugins. This comprehensive book shows you how plugins work, reviews the tools and APIs available in WordPress, and demonstrates how to extend the functionality of WordPress with plugins.

The trio of established authors provides a practical, solutions-based approach along with a collection of timely examples and plenty of code, all aimed at clearly explaining how to create a plugin file, work with users, integrate widgets, add menus and submenus, secure your plugins, and more. You will quickly come to understand how to develop custom plugins so that you can take WordPress to the next corporate and enterprise level.

Professional WordPress Plugin Development:
  • Details the range of complexity in plugins, from a very simple plugin to an extremely elaborate social network package
  • Addresses how to integrate into WordPress, save settings, create widgets and shortcodes, and implement uninstall
  • Learn the proper techniques for storing data, customizing user roles, and security best practices
  • Shares techniques for using custom post types and creating and using custom taxonomies
  • How to create plugins for WordPress Multisite networks
  • Integrate user and role management
  • Explores the HTTP API, JavaScript and AJAX, Cron, the Rewrite API, and more
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  4. Accessibility
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  5. Publication date
    February 17, 2011
  6. Language
    English
  7. File size
    9.8 MB
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WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book is for professional Web developers who want to make WordPress work exactly how they and their clients want. WordPress has already proven an exceptional platform for building any type of site from simple static pages to networks of full - featured communities. Learning how to code plugins will help you get the most out of WordPress and have a cost - effective approach to developing per - client features.

This book is also for the code freelancers who want to broaden their skill portfolio, understand the inner - workings of WordPress functionality, and take on WordPress gigs. Since WordPress is the most popular software to code and power websites, it is crucial that you understand how things run under the hood and how you can make the engine work your way. Learning how to code plugins will be a priceless asset to add to your resume and business card.

Finally, this book is for hobbyist PHP programmers who want to tinker with how their WordPress blog works, discover the infi nite potential of lean and fl exible source code, and how they can interact with the fl ow of events. The beauty of open source is that it ' s easy to learn from and easy to give back in turn. This book will help you take your fi rst step into a community that will welcome your creativity and contribution.

From the Inside Flap

  • Chapter 1 An Introduction to Plugins
  • Chapter 2 Plugin Foundation
  • Chapter 3 Hooks
  • Chapter 4 Integrating in WordPress
  • Chapter 5 Internationalization
  • Chapter 6 Plugin Security
  • Chapter 7 Plugin Settings
  • Chapter 8 Users
  • Chapter 9 HTTP API
  • Chapter 10 The Shortcode API
  • Chapter 11 Extending Posts: Metadata, Custom Post Types, and Taxonomies
  • Chapter 12 JavaScript and Ajax in WordPress
  • Chapter 13 Cron
  • Chapter 14 The Rewrite API
  • Chapter 15 Multisite
  • Chapter 16 Debugging and Optimizing
  • Chapter 17 Marketing Your Plugin
  • Chapter 18 The Developer Toolbox

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004PGMI2I
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 17, 2011
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9.8 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 561 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118075319
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  • Best Sellers Rank: #585 in Blogging & Blogs
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 out of 5 stars (91)

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  1. Brad Williams

    Brad Williams

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    Brad Williams is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios (WDS). Brad has helped grow WDS from a coffee table startup to one of the oldest and most respected WordPress Agencies working with clients like Microsoft, Viacom, Campbell Soup Company, Starbucks, and the NBA.

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    https://twitter.com/williamsba

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    https://webdevstudios.com

    Brad is a co-author of the Professional WordPress Book Series, which are some of the highest rated advanced WordPress Development books on the market. He is the co-organizer of WordCamp Philly 2010 – 2015 and the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup. Brad was also a co-organizer for the Inaugural WordCamp US in 2015 and again in 2016. He has been developing websites for over 20 years. In the last 10, Brad has specifically focused on open-source technologies like WordPress.

    Brad lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son. He’s obsessed with cheesesteaks, Raider’s football (it’s complicated), podcasting, Halloween, LED lights, and all things technology.

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  2. Ozh Richard

    Ozh Richard

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    Ozh started using WordPress in 2004, at version 1.0.1, published his first WordPress powered website in May 2004 and his first plugin in August 2004. Since, he has never stopped to watch WordPress grow and evolve till the most used CMS it is today.

    He has developed several popular WordPress plugins, won an Annual WordPress Plugin Competition and he's now an official judge. He is known to share high quality WordPress tutorials and to maintain WordPress related tools that make the WordPress developer life easier.

    Ozh' areas of expertise are WordPress, PHP in general, and jQuery. When not coding WordPress plugins or playing Quake, Ozh develops YOURLS, a popular self hosted URL shortener that is, of course, free and open source.

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  3. Justin Tadlock

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    Justin Tadlock is the founder of ThemeHybrid.com, which is a popular site that focuses on WordPress themes and plugins for beginner- to advanced-level users. He often writes about WordPress on his personal blog, JustinTadlock.com, which has a large following.

    He has a degree in English with a concentration in creative writing and journalism from Auburn University. He also studied software engineering for two years. He has been developing Web sites for over seven years and has focused mainly on WordPress for the majority of that time, releasing many popular plugins and themes along the way.

    Most important, Justin's passion is teaching, which carries over into his love of writing and development. He spent 14 months teaching English in South Korea but now spends his days teaching people how to use WordPress and build successful Web sites.

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Customers find this WordPress plugin development book to be one of the best in the field, serving as a solid reference that prepares readers for real-life plugin development. They appreciate how it explains both basics and details in a good way, and one customer notes it covers all aspects of plugin development with examples. The book receives positive feedback for its excellent writing style.
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26 customers mention content, 23 positive, 3 negative
Customers find this WordPress plugin development book to be one of the best resources available, serving as a solid reference that prepares readers for real-life plugin development.
Great book, well put together. Just a little outdated.Read more
...I can't rave enough about how great this book is. It's worth it's weight in gold! I wish a resource like this was around years ago!Read more
Very informative, I highly recommend.Read more
...This is an outstanding book and was definitely worth the 2-month pre-order wait to have a physical copy on my desk to mark up and turn back to....Read more
22 customers mention informative, 20 positive, 2 negative
Customers find the book informative, explaining both basics and details in a good way, and distilling everything needed for plugin development. One customer notes it covers all aspects with examples, while another mentions it provides great insights.
The first thing you'll notice about this book is how concise and to the point it is. It doesn't coddle or pad its content in the slightest....Read more
Straight to the point!!!Read more
...This book has so much useful information on working with Wordpress that it will help anyone taking time to do custom work in Wordpress....Read more
Very informative, I highly recommend.Read more
7 customers mention reference, 7 positive, 0 negative
Customers find the book to be an excellent reference, with one customer noting that it takes them back to programming references from the 80's and 90's.
...with WordPress for more than 4 years now, and this is by far the best reference I've seen to date ... both for developers just starting with the...Read more
...This book takes you back to the programming references of the 80's and 90's when most everything was still in print. But, the content is contemporary.Read more
...into how some of the great developers do their code and has made a great reference even for someone who knows the APIs. Definitely recommended.Read more
...This book is both awesome for tutorials and as an overall reference guide. So much better than scrounging around the net....Read more
7 customers mention writing style, 6 positive, 1 negative
Customers appreciate the writing style of the book, describing it as excellently written, with one customer noting its to-the-point approach.
...Excellently written, and shows the refinement that the author intended....Read more
...It's well written, honest, and comes from a collective background of collaboration and been-there-done-that experience....Read more
Clear and basic writing, just what I needed to refresh.Read more
...I had read a short article and like his direct, to the point style at a technical level that met my needs...Read more
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