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Professional WordPress Plugin Development

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 packageAddresses how to integrate into WordPress, save settings, create widgets and shortcodes, and implement uninstallLearn the proper techniques for storing data, customizing user roles, and security best practicesShares techniques for using custom post types and creating and using custom taxonomiesHow to create plugins for WordPress Multisite networksIntegrate user and role managementExplores the HTTP API, JavaScript and AJAX, Cron, the Rewrite API, and more

Paperback: 552 pages

Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (March 15, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0470916222

ISBN-13: 978-0470916223

Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1 x 9.3 inches

Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)

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A formula for success: 1. Put together an idea and outline for a book that hasn't been covered in-depth before. 2. Gather three of the most talented WordPress developers/writers and have them write the book. 3. Release the book and watch the Elves return back to Middle Earth to rejoice with men.Professional Plugin Development, written by Ozh Richard, Justin Tadlock, and Brad Williams, is a much-needed and very timely book.There have been several aspiring developers that have approached me saying they needed a start-from-the-basics WordPress plugin development book. And while Professional Plugin Development does teach the basics of plugin development, it quickly moves on to much more complex topics.The book covers the topics I care most about, such as: * WordPress Plugin Foundation and Best Practices * WordPress Security * WordPress Actions and Filters (aka, hooks) * And AjaxBut the book goes beyond basic plugin development. It teaches you about plugin options, CRON for scheduling common tasks, storing data (whether it is via post types, transients, or options), the HTTP API (for retrieving remote data), users (how to set up roles and capabilities), localization (err, internationalization), and how to test plugin performance.For a novice PHP and WordPress developer, this is a good starting point. But don't think of this book as your way to learn PHP, jQuery, or even basic WordPress (there's WordPress for Dummies for that).This is a book written by developers for developers. And I must say that I learned a lot from this book, and I've been developing WordPress plugins and themes for almost six years.

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