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Building your first plugin by John Hawkins at WordCamp MSP
The document discusses a presentation by John Hawkins on building your first WordPress plugin, covering essential topics such as tools, hooks, and coding practices. Key concepts include the types of hooks available in WordPress, how to organize plugin files, and the creation of a settings page. Resources for further learning are also provided, including links to relevant websites.
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Building your first plugin by John Hawkins at WordCamp MSP
- 1. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! BUILDING YOUR FIRSTPLUGIN WordPress 301 Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek
- 2. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Husband - Dad -Self-Employed - Web Developer - Geek Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek Hi, I’m John
- 3. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - 9seeds.com - VegasGeek.com -@vegasgeek - Spend too much time in front of the computer Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek What I do
- 4. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! HOW I GOTSTARTED Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek
- 5. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Tools - Hooks -Code - Resources Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek About this presentation
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- 7. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Windows: XAMPP http://vegasgeek.com/xampp -Older Mac (like me): MAMP http://vegasgeek.com/mamp Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek Develop Locally
- 8. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Syntax Highlighting -Error Checking - Auto-Complete functions - NetBeans / PHP Storm Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek Use an IDE
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- 10. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Specific pointsin the WordPress code used to interact with WordPress - Two types of hooks; Actions and Filters - 1,300+ hooks in WordPress 3.0 Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek What’s a Hook?
- 11. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Tell WordPressto perform a function at a specific time Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek Action Hooks
- 12. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Passes datato your function - Your function can modify the data and send it back to WordPress Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek Filter Hooks
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- 14. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Create ashortcode - Display info for an upcoming event in a page or post - Create an admin panel to update event info Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek What will it do?
- 15. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Single filesgo directly in the plugin folder - Multiple files go in their own folder - WordPress only looks one folder deep Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek The Plugin Folder
- 16. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! - Single filesgo directly in the plugin folder - Multiple files go in their own folder - WordPress only looks one folder deep Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek The Plugin Folder
- 17. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek Plugin Header
- 18. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek Plugin Header
- 19. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek The Function
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- 22. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek Add a settings page
- 23. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek The settings form
- 24. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek The settings form
- 25. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek The settings form
- 26. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek The settings form
- 27. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek The settings form
- 28. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek Settings Page
- 29. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! Follow John Hawkins@VegasGeek Use the option values
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- 32. www.WordCampMSP.org Tweetaboutthissession#WordCampMSP!!! John Hawkins john@9seeds.com Work: http://9seeds.com Blog:http://vegasgeek.com Tweet: @vegasgeek Follow John Hawkins @VegasGeek Thank You!
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