Slides from WordCamp Phoenix 2013 - WP301: Plugin Development

1. Building a WordPress Plugin
It’s Not Rocket Science
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2. Who’s This Guy?
• Senior Web Engineer at 10up
• WordPress Core Contributor
• Early adopter
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3. What is a Plugin
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4. Basic Structure: Readme
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5. Basic Structure: wcphx.php
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6. Setting Things Up
• Internationalization
• Activation/Deactivation
• Hooks – Actions/Filters
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7. Namespacing
• What is it?
• Function prefixes
• Class wrappers
– Static
– Object
– Singleton
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8. Let’s Try It
http://eam.me/q1
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