WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook: Explore the complete set of tools to craft powerful plugins that extend the world’s most popular CMS, 3rd Edition
Author: Yannick Lefebvre
Publisher finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing; 3rd ed. edition (March 31, 2022)
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 420 pages
ISBN-10: 180181077X
ISBN-13: 9781801810777
Book Description
Create plugins for WordPress through detailed recipes that cover the creation of shortcodes, custom post types, and custom blocks, integrate data from external sources, and do much more with this recipe-based guide
Key Features
Create plugins that change and extend WordPress to perform virtually any task
Extend the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and other components with the help of detailed examples and explanations
Customize WordPress to meet your project’s needs and create plugins that benefit the entire community
WordPress is one of the most widely used, powerful, and open content management systems (CMSs). Whether you’re a site owner trying to find the right extension, a developer who wants to contribute to the community, or a website developer working to fulfill a client’s needs, learning how to extend WordPress’ capabilities will help you to unleash its full potential. This book will help you become familiar with API functions to create secure plugins with easy-to-use administration interfaces.
This third edition contains new recipes and up-to-date code samples, including new chapters on creating custom blocks for the block editor and integrating data from external sources. From one chapter to the next, you’ll learn how to create plugins of varying complexity, ranging from a few lines of code to complex extensions that provide intricate new capabilities. You’ll start Author: using the basic mechanisms provided in WordPress to create plugins, followed Author: recipes covering how to design administration panels, enhance the post editor with custom fields, store custom data, and even create custom blocks. You’ll safely incorporate dynamic elements into web pages using scripting languages, learn how to integrate data from external sources, and build new widgets that users will be able to add to WordPress sidebars and widget areas.
Author: the end of this book, you will be able to create WordPress plugins to perform any task you can imagine.
What you will learn
Discover action and filter hooks, which form the basis of plugin creation
Explore the creation of administration pages and add new content management sections through custom post types and custom fields
Add new components to the block editor library
Fetch, cache, and regularly update data from external sources
Bring in external data sources to enhance your content
Make your pages dynamic Author: using JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX and adding new widgets to the platform
Add support for plugin translation and distributing your work to the WordPress community
