Introduction and the Basics of WordPress Plugin Development
- Thank You For Enrolling In This Course: What Exactly Is A Plugin?
- Details on Plugin Architecture
- WordPress Plugins vs Themes: The 2 Common Questions I Always Get
- List of hooks included in this course so far...Students will learn and more!
- Changing Capitalization in Posts and Pages On The Fly With Filter Hooks
- Inserting Posts and Pages Programmatically
- Expanding The User Profile Page With Additional Sections and Fields
- Code: Hide Menu Items from any Wordpress User
- Extracting WordPress Settings from Themes and Plugins With Bloginfo(): Part 1
- Extracting WordPress Settings from Themes and Plugins With Bloginfo(): Part 2
- Automatically/Programmatically Create Posts and Pages on the Fly!
Plugins Allow Developers To Take Control of WordPress Administrative Back End
- Introduction: Great Things That Developers Can Do With the WordPress Back End
- PLUGIN #1: Display a Message To All Writers In the WordPress Back End
- Create Your Own Custom WordPress Dashboard Widgets With PHP
- Programatically Changing The Footer Text In The Administrative Back End
- Programmatically Activate Plugins Without Having To Click The Activate Link
- Adding Messages To Writers At the End of Any Post Editing Form
- Adding Menu/Submenu Links to the Administrative Back End & Generating Data Forms
- Code: Expand The User Profile Page
- Removing Admin Links From Certain Users
WordPress API Programming Commonly Used In Plugins
- Introduction to the WordPress Options API
- WordPress Transient API For WordPress Websites and WordPress Multisites
- Options API: Deleting Options
- Options API: Multisites
- Introduction to the Metadata API
- Metadata API Continued: Updating Metadata
- Metadata API Continued: Adding and Deleting Metadata
- Exercise: Write code to add a first and last name to your WordPress admin
- Widgets API: An Introduction in Creating A Simple Widget
- Exercise: Add 3 more fields to the Visit Website API and Display Its HTML
- Introduction to the Theme Customization API
- Introduction to the Shortcode API from the Instructor
- Shortcode API - Creating simple a shortcode
- Shortcode API: Adding Support for Attributes
- PLUGIN #2: Date & Time- Students Must Add Extra Attributes to Shortcode
- WordPress API Review Quiz
HOOKS: The Most Important Tool In Your WordPress Plugin Development Toolbox
- What Exactly Is A Hook? Why We Need Them. Hooks Introduction from the Instructor
- How To Write A Hook and Specify Its Callback Function
- The 2 Types of Hooks
- Writing The Filter Hook and How To Change Your Post Content Dynamically
- Filter Hook: Adding CSS Classes To The HTML Body Tag
- Making Things Happen After WordPress Initializes & Minimizing Server Overhead.
- Using Hooks To Add A Facebook Share Button To Any Post or Page
- Hooks Development Quiz
Developing WordPress Plugins
- Developing Plugins: The basics and what every plugin needs.
- Create A Basic Plugin That Shows Hello World After Every Post or Page
- Create a plugin to always display and center the current post's featured image
- Dissecting The PHP and WP code for the Hello Dolly Plugin
Creating and Processing Thumbnails for Post Featured Images
- Creating New Image/Thumbnail Sizes
- Alternative Cropping Positioning Settings When Creating Thumbnails/Images
- Adding Thumbnail Sizes With the "After Theme Setup" Action Hook
- Adding Our Custom Thumbnail Sizes To The WordPress Media Manager
- Getting the Thumbnail Link From The Post ID
- Image Size Development Quiz
More Quick and Simple, but Powerful Plugins
- PLUGIN #3: Change Hello Dolly Plugin To With YOUR Favorite Song Lyrics
- PLUGIN #4: "User Greeting" Sending Messages To Specific Users
- PLUGIN #5: Login Protect...Protect Login Form From Unauthorized Users/Hackers
- PLUGIN #6: The Paypal Button...Generate HTML in Posts & Pages With Filter Hooks
- PLUGIN #7: My Social Media...Displaying Icons For Our Social Network Profiles
- PLUGIN #8: Shortcode Text Snippet Library
Plugin #9: Media File Unzipper
- Demo of the Media File Unzipper
- Creating Our Menu Link and Upload Form
- Processing The Uploaded Zip File (Part 1)
- Processing The Uploaded Zip File (Part 2)
Plugin #10: Tabbed Instructions in WP-ADMIN
- Tabbed Instructions Plugin Demo
- Building and Populating The Tabs
- Customizing The Tabbed Instructions Plugin (Part 1)
- Customizing The Tabbed Instructions Plugin (Part 2)
Even More Quick and Simple, but Powerful Plugins
- Plugin #11: Build Quicktags That Insert Any Data With Simple PHP
- Plugin #12: Quicktags WIth Selected Text
- Plugin #13: Custom Post Type Search Engine
- Plugin 14: Post Rating Shortcode
Q&A: Add your questions to the discussion board and I will answer them here!
- Ask Away!
- Student Question: update_metadata is not working...
Conclusion and Bonus Lecture
- Bonus Lecture: Coupons For My Other WP Courses & Websites For Web Developers
