Plugin Development WordPress

Plugin Development

  • Plugin Developer Handbook – The best starting place for learning about how to develop plugins
  • WordPress Coding Standards – General information about coding standards for WordPress development
  • Debugging in WordPress – Reference and guide for using the built-in debugging system in WordPress.
  • Data Validation – A must-read for WordPress plugin authors. Describes the functions used by WordPress to validate and sanitize data. Plugin authors should be familiar with these functions and ideas.
  • Plugin Submission and Promotion – Once you have written your plugin, here are some hints on distributing it widely
  • Migrating Plugins and Themes – Contains information on how to upgrade your Plugin so it will work from version to version of WordPress
  • Function Reference – Complete PHP function reference for WordPress
  • Global Variables – A list of all global variables created by WordPress
  • Post Types – Creating new types of posts other than the posts that display on the main loop.
  • Taxonomies – Creating new types of taxonomies other than the built-in ones.
  • Reserved Terms – A list of reserved terms in WordPress.