Creating Plugins To Extend Wordpress

What you'll learn
Learn how to create your WordPress plugins and widgets
Once you have completed this training course, you will have learned how to create and distribute your own plugins using PHP and the WordPress API
Requirements
PC or MAC
Working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons
Description
In this Creating Plugins to Extend WordPress training course, expert author Joe Chellman will teach you how to create your own plugins using the WordPress API. This course is designed for users that already have a basic working knowledge of WordPress.
You will start by learning about the highlights of the WordPress API, then jump into creating your first plugin: a dashboard banner. From there, Joe will teach you how to create your second plugin, as well as how to further enhance your plugin, including how to create a widget for custom posts, register settings and sections, and prepare your plugin for localization. This video tutorial also covers additional plugin possibilities, such as using transients to cache expensive operations, implementing the transients API, and reacting to deactivation and uninstallation of your plugin. Finally, you will learn how to distribute your plugin, including how to publish independently on GitHub and submit to the WordPress plugin directory.
Once you have completed this computer based training course, you will have learned how to create and distribute your own plugins using PHP and the WordPress API. Working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Important - Download These First - Working Files
Lecture 2 Introduction And Course Overview
Lecture 3 About The Author
Lecture 4 Surveying The Existing Plugin Landscape
Lecture 5 Creating A Theme VS A Plugin
Section 2: Getting Ready
Lecture 6 Setting Up A Local Web Server With MAMP
Lecture 7 Setting Up WordPress On MAMP
Lecture 8 Setting Up A Local Web Server With DesktopServer
Lecture 9 Why And How To Use An IDE
Lecture 10 Setting Up The PhpStorm IDE For WordPress Development
Lecture 11 Optional: Configuring Xdebug And Connecting It To PhpStorm
Lecture 12 Finding And Using Online And Offline Documentation
Lecture 13 A Small Grab Bag Of Developer Tips
Section 3: Highlights Of The WordPress API
Lecture 14 Hooks, Actions, And Filters: A Developer's Interface With WordPress
Lecture 15 Storing dаta: Posts Or A Custom Database Table?
Lecture 16 Plugin Security: Authentication, Sanitizing, Escaping, And Nonces
Section 4: Our First Plugin: A Dashboard Banner
Lecture 17 Make A Plan And Mock It Up
Lecture 18 Create The Plugin Shell
Lecture 19 Find The Right Hooks
Lecture 20 Implementing The Hook We Found
Lecture 21 Refactoring The Plugin As A Class
Lecture 22 Adding CSS And/Or jаvascript
Section 5: Our Second Plugin: Movie Reviews
Lecture 23 Make A Plan: The Data Model
Lecture 24 Register The Custom Post Type
Lecture 25 Set Configuration Options For The Custom Post Type
Lecture 26 Add Activation And Deactivation Hooks
Lecture 27 Create Custom Fields Using Core WordPress
Lecture 28 Interface With Another Plugin For Better Custom Fields
Lecture 29 Add A Taxonomy For Custom Categories
Lecture 30 Provide A Template For Themes
Section 6: Further Enhancements For Our Plugin
Lecture 31 Create A Widget For The Custom Posts
Lecture 32 Finish The Custom Widget
Lecture 33 Create An Options Page For Settings
Lecture 34 Register Settings And Sections
Lecture 35 Create The User Interface For The Custom Options
Lecture 36 Sanitize And Use The Options
Lecture 37 Add Your Own Hooks To Your Plugin
Lecture 38 Make Your Plugin Ready For Internationalization
Lecture 39 Prepare Your Plugin For Localization
Section 7: Additional Plugin Possibilities
Lecture 40 Expand The Possibilities Of WordPress With The REST API
Lecture 41 Use Transients To Cache Expensive Operations
Lecture 42 Implement The Transients API
Lecture 43 Create Custom Data Using The $wpdb Class
Lecture 44 React To Deactivation And Uninstallation Of Your Plugin
Section 8: Distributing Your Plugin
Lecture 45 Submitting To The WordPress.org Plugin Directory
Lecture 46 Publishing Independently On Github
Lecture 47 Ideas For Commercializing Your Plugin
Section 9: Conclusion
Lecture 48 Additional Resources And How To Contribute
Lecture 49 Wrap Up
This course is designed for users that already have a basic working knowledge of WordPress,This course is geared towards WordPress users learning how to create WordPress plugins and widgets

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