Advanced Plugin Creation in WordPress
summary
Builds and ships a working plugin called architect-subscribers that actually creates a sidebar widget, an admin settings page and a shortcode, uses WordPress hooks like add_action and register_widget, and ties into wpdb with prepared statements and DB Delta for schema changes. Shows activation hooks, load_plugin_textdomain for translations, and scheduling via WP scheduled events to throttle mass emails (notes on handling a list of ~3,000). Code runs and multiple plugins are released.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Start
- 0:28About Me
- 2:40What does Paladin do?
- 4:14Basic Tenets of a Plugin
- 5:47Basic Structure of a Plugin
- 8:43Plugin base file File header needs to have this for WP to pick up and display details
- 8:56Plan your Plugin
- 11:15Plan Your Admin Menu
- 12:51Common WP Plugin Functions
- 20:07Build 1st level admin menu function arch menu
- 20:44Look at the Menu
- 29:34Menu action functions
- 34:00Dashboard Widgets
- 36:23Short Codes
- 38:09Post action triggers
- 44:01Internationalization
- 46:28Free Version
- 49:37Plugin Installs
- 50:17Plugin Updates
- 51:14Debugging the Plugin
- 52:15Additional Resources
- 52:49RingCentral
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