Beginner’s Guide To Plugin Development

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BEGINNERS GUIDE TO PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT
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WHAT IS PLUG-IN?

• Plugin is a software component that allows you to
  add features to your site and remain intact, even
  if you switch themes or upgrade your WordPress
  install. However there may be times where a
  plugin does not meet your specific needs. In this
  case you would want to hire plugin development to
  have it done exactly as you wanted and increase
  that twitter feed on website.

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CREATING A PLUGIN

• To make a WordPress plugin development from
  scratch, what you have to do first is to create a
  folder to store your plugin. Keep in mind that
  the name of your plugin folder will be your
  plugin slug.
• This plugin slug should be unique. Unique in a
  way that no other plugin slug should have the
  same as what you have created.

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FILTERS AND ACTION

• Filters and actions permit for plug-in developers
  to update bits of code all over the WordPress
  admin panel pertaining to your new plug-in. This
  means you could add a new tab in the sidebar or
  additional settings links for your best WordPress
  photo gallery plugin options.
• Filters allow you to modify or change data before
  it is used rather than implementing an additional
  action. While actions dont work on bits of data
  but instead target pre-defined areas in your
  templates and admin panel.

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JAVASCRIPT INTERFACE

• The JavaScript interface is the most important
  element in plugins. It provides front-facing
  interface. You are able to structure the
  JavaScript however you want to. But it is best to
  get plugin developers to have it done
  professionally and correctly.

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VALIDATING

• You can use a utility plugman to check if the
  plugin installs correctly for each platforms. To
  validate you will be needing a valid app source
  directory, an example of which is www that is
  in the default CLI-generated project as described
  in the command-line interface. You have to make
  sure that the index.html home page reference
  and the name of plugins JavaScript is the same.
• If you are unsure of what to do, get a plugin
  development online to help you.

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INSTALLATION

• Download the plugin on the plugin page. Then go
  to the menu Tools gt Plugins gt Downloaded. After
  which, click on Add Plugin, and select the NBM or
  ZIP file you have just downloaded. Click on
  Install, and your plugin is installed.
• Or perhaps, seek help from WordPress plugin
  development services to help you install your
  plugins.

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• These are some of the basics to get you started
  on plugin development. The plugin system is vast
  and holds a great deal of internal functionality.
  There are several things you can do with plugins
  and also many ways you can create them.
• The understanding to do things right always comes
  after you do things wrong. Or better yet hire a
  plugin developers to help you instead.

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DID YOU KNOW?

• Wordpress is somehow the easiest and most
  powerful blogging and website content management
  system (or CMS) in existence today.
• You can place plugins to add extra feature to
  WordPress. It can be designed to address to what
  you wanted precisely. Have a custom WordPress
  plugin developer who are proficient in different
  programming language.

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