20 Tutorials to Develop Wordpress Plugin

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by admin in How-To

Wordpress has become more important application for bloggers and even for those who need small web site. To extend its functionality beyond the basic features there are too many plugins. You can do almost anything with wordpress using different plugins. If you are a developer you can develop your own plugin or use plugins developed by others.

I have compiled 20 tutorials for developers to know how to develop wordpress plugin.

1. WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

Here it is, a video guide to creating your first WordPress plugin (in under 5 minutes!).

WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

2. Writing a Plugin

WordPress Plugins allow easy modification, customization, and enhancement to a WordPress blog. Instead of changing the core programming of WordPress, you can add functionality with WordPress Plugins.

Writing a Plugin

Writing a Plugin

3. How to Write a WordPress Plugin – Introduction

For any WordPress user, plugins are essential. WordPress Plugins allow those with little to no programming skills to extend the functionality of their blog.

How to Write a WordPress Plugin - Introduction

How to Write a WordPress Plugin - Introduction

4. Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

This tutorial will describe the implementation of a Wordpress plugin starting from scratch. The plugin will connect to an external OSCommerce database and display random products on your Wordpress site.

Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

5. Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

This tutorial will guide you through every step of building a simple, widgetized WordPress plugin with settings.

Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

6. A Crash-Course in WordPress Plugin Development

Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today’s screencast, we’ll start from scratch and build our first usable plugin.

Plugin Crash Course

Plugin Crash Course

7. Wordpress Plugin Development Short Tutorial

A short video tutorial on wordpress plugin development.

Wordpress Plugin Development Short Tutorial

Wordpress Plugin Development Short Tutorial

8. WordPress Plugin Tutorial – Hello World

Learning to develop a WordPress plugin can be both fun and rewarding. In this Tutorial we will go over how to make a simple Hello World plugin that you can create.

9. The Ultimate Guide to Building a Wordpress Plugin

There are often plugins created for basic extended functionality, but what happens when you can’t find the perfect plugin for your needs? It might be easier to just create the plugin yourself.

10. How to Make a Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugin

In this article by Vladimir Prelovac, you will learn to create your first functional WordPress plugin and learn how to interact with the WordPress API (this is the WordPress interface to PHP) on the way.

11. WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

Nice video tutorial on plugin development.

WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

WorPress Plugin Development with PHP

12. Tips to Speed Up WordPress Plugin Development

Anyone can create useful WordPress plugins without being a hacker.

13. Seven Reasons to Write a WordPress Plugin

Listed below are seven reasons why a WordPress user should consider writing a WordPress plugin.

14. WordPress Plugin Actions

An example of an action would be that you want a execute some code after a user has published a post or left a comment.

15. WordPress Plugin Filters

WordPress filters allow to you modify virtually any kind of text displayed and are extremely powerful.

16. Constructing a WordPress Plugin Admin Panel

This tutorial will go into what it takes to successfully create an admin panel for your plugin.

17. Constructing a WordPress Plugin User’s Panel

This tutorial will go over the steps to add in your own User’s Administration Panel.

18. Using JavaScript and CSS with your WordPress Plugin

This portion of the series will cover how to load JavaScript and CSS files for your plugin.

19. Using AJAX with your WordPress Plugin

This post will show you how to use AJAX with your WordPress plugin.

20. Releasing and Promoting Your WordPress Plugin

After you have finished writing your awesome WordPress plugin, there are a few things to consider before releasing and promoting your WordPress plugin.

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27 Responses to “20 Tutorials to Develop Wordpress Plugin”

  1. alex

    04. May, 2009

    Nice collection Thanks for sharing

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  6. DigitalMikey

    07. May, 2009

    Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

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    28. May, 2009

    hey this is a very interesting article!

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  10. mychungui

    02. Jun, 2009

    really, really very nice?I am a novice, I came to learn. thanks for sharing information!!! ^0^

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  11. petites annonces

    03. Jun, 2009

    Thanks very much for taking your time to create this very useful infos .

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  12. Pandora Batteries Rock

    11. Jun, 2009

    Great information and it has answered some things I was very confused about, thanks

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  14. Jacobsen

    23. Jun, 2009

    nice find, adding you to my rss feed, thanks!

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  15. brandon

    29. Jun, 2009

    Thanks for the list. :) Maybe one day one of my tutorials on http://www.zetagrafix.com will be on this. :) good work very inspirational.

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  16. George

    07. Jul, 2009

    Great compilation on resources to understand plugins! Thank you for sharing this.

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  17. Sandy Saini

    08. Jul, 2009

    I bookmarked your blog, thanks for sharing this very interesting article.

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  18. Sandip Saini

    13. Jul, 2009

    Wow… i really don’t know what to say… it’s a masterwork! Thanks for the collection. I follow your blog for quite a long time. again Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!

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  19. Curtis

    16. Jul, 2009

    useful information you got up there, I’m here to give you a…. *thumbs up* Check back with me

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  20. quiqueorisk

    17. Jul, 2009

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  21. chiquitas desnudas

    18. Jul, 2009

    mm… amazing..

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  22. cacyru

    23. Sep, 2009

    Nice site!

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  23. jeab

    02. Oct, 2009

    Nice article, I bookmarked your blog.
    I will start study from here.

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  24. techprism

    18. Oct, 2009

    This is giving a very nice reason to start with writing plugins for Wordpress.

    I am Starting it today. :)

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  25. Mr.Mix

    15. Dec, 2009

    awesome thanks a lot ! for this pretty collection !

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  26. James M.

    18. Dec, 2009

    Search in Google for wordpress plugins tutorials and came here. This is a collection of tutorials. Now, this should have been number 1 in the SERP. Thanks.

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  27. serkan

    05. Feb, 2010

    I’m trying to write a simple plugin. These wp tutorial links are, what I need.

    Thanks for the list.

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