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WordPress 3 plugin development essentials : create your own powerful, interactive plugins to extend and add features to your WordPress site /
This book will provide an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to building your own WordPress plugins from scratch. We will construct a variety of plugins from the group up, demonstrating how to tap into a number of WordPress development aspects, as well as how to prepare and release your plugi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, UK :
Packt,
Ã2011.
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| Colección: | Community experience distilled
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Table of Contents; WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials; WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code for this book; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Preparing for WordPress Development; WordPress background; Extending WordPress; Understanding WordPress architecture
- TemplatingIntroducing plugins; Summarizing architecture; Tools for web development; WordPress; Mac; Windows; Text editor; Using an IDE; FTP client; MySQL client; Coding best practices; Basic organization; Isolate tasks into functions; Use classes; Use descriptive variable names; Use descriptive function names; Separate logic and display layers; Go modular, to a point; Avoid short tags; Planning ahead / starting development; Interfaces; Localization; Documentation for the developer; Version control; Environment; Tests; Security; Printing user-supplied data to a page
- Using user-supplied data to construct database queriesDebugging; Clearing your browser cache; Updating your php.ini file; Configuring your wp-config.php file; Checking your syntax; Checking values; Exercise; Summary; 2. Anatomy of a Plugin; Deconstructing an existing plugin: Hello Dolly
- Activating the plugin; Examining the hello.php file; Information header; Exercise-breaking the header; Location, name, and format; Understanding the Includes; Exercise
- parse errors; Bonus for the curious; User-defined functions; Exercise-an evil functionless plugin; What just happened
- Omitting the closing ""?>"" PHP tagA better example: Adding functions; Referencing hooks via add_action() and add_filter(); Actions versus Filters; Exercise-actions and filters; Exercise-filters; Reading more; Summary; 3. Social Bookmarking; The overall plan; Proof of concept; Avoiding conflicting function names; The master plugin outline; The plugin information header; In your browser-information header; Adding a link to the post content; Documenting our functions; In your browser-linking to the post content; Adding JavaScript to the head; Making our link dynamic
- In your browser-dynamic linksAdding a button template; Getting the post URL; In your browser-getting the post URL; Getting the post title; Getting the description; Getting the media type; Getting the post topic; In your browser-title, description, and topic; Checking WordPress versions; Summary; 4. Ajax Search; What is Ajax?; The overall plan; The proof of concept mock up; Hooking up jQuery; Test that jQuery has loaded; What happened?; Using the FireBug console directly; Writing HTML dynamically to a target div; Multi-line strings; Create a listener; Fetching data from another page