Professional WordPress Plugin Development is the ultimate WordPress development learning tool, taking budding PHP developers, advanced users, and professional programmers through the steps of creating quality plugins.
Pro WP Plugin Development is available in paperback and e-book and is the only book you’ll ever need to craft poetic code like the pros!
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“This is the book I’ve been waiting for ever since I started to work with WordPress 3 years ago.”
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What’s in the book?
Pro WP Plugin Development will teach you everything you need to know about developing WordPress plugins. It will walk you through the initial steps of setting up your first plugin to advanced topics never before covered in detail. The book includes 80+ fully functional plugins.
- An Introduction to Plugins
- Plugin Foundation
- Hooks
- Integrating in WordPress
- Internationalization
- Plugin Security
- Plugin Settings
- Users
- HTTP API
- The Shortcode API
- Metadata, Post Types, and Taxonomies
- JavaScript and Ajax
- Cron
- The Rewrite API
- Multisite
- Debugging and Optimizing
- Marketing Your Plugin
- The Developer Toolbox
Plus, a foreword by WordPress, SEO, and online marketing consultant Joost de Valk.














