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Professional WordPress Plugin Development

By John James Jacoby and Brad Williams and Justin Tadlock
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Professional WordPress Plugin Development is a comprehensive guide for developers looking to create custom plugins for WordPress. The authors provide step-by-step instructions and best practices covering a wide range of topics from basic plugin creation to advanced techniques. This book is essential for developers aiming to expand their WordPress capabilities by building powerful, efficient, and secure plugins.
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You might enjoy this book if you're keen on deepening your skills in creating and developing WordPress plugins. It's perfect for those already familiar with WordPress basics who want to explore advanced techniques and learn from experienced developers in the field. Whether you're a professional developer or a hobbyist, this guide offers valuable insights into crafting high-quality plugins.

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Extend WordPress with plugins using this advanced WordPress development book, updated for the current version

This significantly updated edition of Professional WordPress Plugin Development addresses modern plugin development for WordPress, the highly popular content management system (CMS). If you’re using WordPress to create and manage websites, WordPress plugins are the software that can extend or enhance CMS functionality. This book offers guidance on writing plugins for WordPress sites to share or sell to other users.

The second edition of Professional WordPress Plugin Development covers the building of advanced plugin development scenarios. It discusses the plugin framework and coding standards as well as dashboards, settings, menus, and related application programming interfaces (APIs). Additional topics include security, performance, data validation, and SQL statements.

• Learn about the power of hooks in WordPress

• Discover how JavaScript and Ajax will work in your site

• Understand key technologies: Block Editor/Gutenberg, JS/React, PHP, and the REST API

• Create and use custom post types and taxonomies.

• Create custom dashboard menus and plugin settings

• Work with users and user data

• Schedule tasks and utilise Cron

• Performance and security considerations

Written by experienced plugin developers, Professional WordPress Plugin Development also helps you internationalise and localise your WordPress website. Find out about debugging systems and optimising your site for speed. As WordPress use continues to increase, you can elevate your professional knowledge of how to extend WordPress through plugins.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119666943

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 June 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Wrox Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 794g

Pages: 480

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Brad Williams Computing & Technology Education & Reference John James Jacoby Justin Tadlock Non-Fiction

About the Author

About the authors

Brad Williams is CEO and cofounder of WebDevStudios, a WordPress design and development firm. He is coauthor of Professional WordPress Design and Development.

Justin Tadlock is a plugin and theme developer with over a decade of professional experience. He currently writes for WP Tavern.

John James Jacoby has authored dozens of popular WordPress plugins and leads the development of bbPress and BuddyPress. He has contributed to every major WordPress version since 2008.

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