Creating Plugins To Extend Wordpress

Developing Custom Plugins with PHP and the WordPress API

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 Data: 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 Javascript

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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