Hacking Wordpress, a Crash Course in Writing Plugins and Widgets

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php[architect] front end runs on WordPress with a separate web services API backend handling subscriptions, users and business logic, allowing multiple WP nodes and an iPad prototype app that works. WordPress is presented as an application framework: plugins are single files with a header block, hooks are central (about 1183 hooks in 3.6, ~600 actions), the global wpdb and get_row caching are used, and examples actually run: a title filter that uppercases posts, working rot13 and anti‑spam shortcodes, and configurable widgets that save their title.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 7:19WordPress as PHP framework
3. 13:19First WordPress plugin
4. 18:37WordPress hooks system
5. 29:05WordPress shortcodes
6. 44:39Reusable WordPress widgets
7. 57:59Advanced WordPress features

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