PROFESSIONAL WORDPRESS PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT

WordPress is fast becoming the most popular publishing platform on the web.   Professional WordPress Plugin Development shows how to develop custom plugins essential to extending WordPress into the corporate and enterprise environment as well as for the developer looking for a more sophisticated and advanced content management system for clients.  The book starts off with a brief but solid review of Plugin foundations and then moves on to Hooks-how to create and customize, Internationalization with a focus on creating translation files, how to secure your plugin, as essential skill, plugin settings and in the users chapter, special focus on how to create custom user roles, work with users, lock down sections for specific users in a plugin that could be used in a corporate environment. Integrating, creating widgets and meta boxes is followed by advanced topics including the HTTP API, JavaScript and AJAX, Cron integration, rewrites and query vars, debugging and optimizing and even how to market your plugin. The purpose here is to learn how to create WordPress plugins using the proper methods and tools available via the WordPress API for optimal success.

Taking WordPress to the next level with advanced plugin development WordPress is used to create self-hosted blogs and sites, and its fast becoming the most popular content management system (CMS) on the Web. Now you can extend it for personal, corporate and enterprise use with advanced plugins and this professional development guide.  Learn how to create plugins using the WordPress plugin API: utilize hooks, store custom settings, craft translation files, secure your plugins, set custom user roles, integrate widgets, work with JavaScript and AJAX, , create custom post types. Youll find a practical, solutions-based approach, lots of helpful examples, and plenty of code you can incorporate! Shows you how to develop advanced plugins for the most popular CMS platform today, WordPress Covers plugin fundamentals, how to create and customize hooks, internationalizing your site with translation files, securing plugins, how to create customer users, and ways to lock down specific areas for use in corporate settings Delves into advanced topics, including creating widgets and metaboxes, debugging, using JavaScript and AJAX, Cron integration, custom post types, short codes, multi site functions, and working with the HTTP API Includes pointers on how to debug, profile and optimize your code, and how to market your custom plugin Learn advanced plugin techniques and extend WordPress into the corporate environment.