Professional WordPress Plugin Development - Softcover

Williams, Brad; Richard, Ozh; Tadlock, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470916222 ISBN 13: 9780470916223

Publisher: Wrox Pr Inc, 2011

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

BRAD WILLIAMS is the CEO and Co - Founder of WebDevStudios.com. He is also a co - host on the SitePoint Podcast and the co - author of Professional WordPress . Brad has been developing websites for more than 14 years, including the last 4 where he has focused on open - source technologies like WordPress. Brad has given presentations at various WordCamps across the country, is the organizer for the New Jersey and Philadelphia WordPress Meetups and WordCamp Philly. In 2010 Brad founded Pluginize.com, a company dedicated to building custom WordPress plugins.

OZH RICHARD is a web developer who started to use WordPress at version 1.0.1, published his first WordPress powered website in May 2004, and released his fi rst plugin three months later. He has since developed several popular plugins, won an Annual WordPress Plugin Competition, and is now an official judge. When not coding WordPress plugins or sharing tutorials, Ozh contributes to other Open Source projects such as YOURLS, a self - hosted URL shortener, or plays Quake. You can find Ozh online at ozh.org/

JUSTIN TADLOCK is a Web developer and designer who coded his first Web page in 2003 at the age of 18, only months after getting his first computer. He found WordPress in 2005 and has been working with and contributing to the platform ever since. He has developed many popular WordPress plugins and themes while exploring several business paths using the open - source platform.

From the Back Cover

Take WordPress to the next level with advanced 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 in WordPress, and demonstrates how to extend the functionality of WordPress with plugins. The trio of 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 social networking plugin to an extremely elaborate e-commerce package

• Addresses how to integrate into WordPress, save settings, create widgets and shortcodes, and implement uninstall

• Unveils the proper techniques for storing data, customizing user roles, and implementing security best practices

• Shares procedures for using custom post types and creating and using custom taxonomies

• Explores the HTTP API, JavaScript® and Ajax, Cron, the Rewrite API, and more

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Wrox Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470916222
• ISBN 13: 9780470916223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 524