Professional WordPress Plugin Development

Professional WordPress Plugin Development

Taking WordPress to the next level with advanced plugin development

WordPress is used to create self-hosted blogs and sites, and it’s fast becoming the most popular content management system (CMS) on the Web. Now you can extend it for personal, corporate and enterprise use with advanced plugins and this professional development guide. Learn how to create plugins using the WordPress plugin API: utilize hooks, store custom settings, craft translation files, secure your plugins, set custom user roles, integrate widgets, work with JavaScript and AJAX, create custom post types. You’ll find a practical, solutions-based approach, lots of helpful examples, and plenty of code you can incorporate!

  • Shows you how to develop advanced plugins for the most popular CMS platform today, WordPress
  • Covers plugin fundamentals, how to create and customize hooks, internationalizing your site with translation files, securing plugins, how to create customer users, and ways to lock down specific areas for use in corporate settings
  • Delves into advanced topics, including creating widgets and metaboxes, debugging, using JavaScript and AJAX, Cron integration, custom post types, short codes, multi site functions, and working with the HTTP API
  • Includes pointers on how to debug, profile and optimize your code, and how to market your custom plugin

Learn advanced plugin techniques and extend WordPress into the corporate environment.Taking WordPress to the next level with advanced plugin development

WordPress is used to create self-hosted blogs and sites, and it’s fast becoming the most popular content management system (CMS) on the Web. Now you can extend it for personal, corporate and enterprise use with advanced plugins and this professional development guide. Learn how to create plugins using the WordPress plugin API: utilize hooks, store custom settings, craft translation files, secure your plugins, set custom user roles, integrate widgets, work with JavaScript and AJAX, create custom post types. You’ll find a practical, solutions-based approach, lots of helpful examples, and plenty of code you can incorporate!

  • Shows you how to develop advanced plugins for the most popular CMS platform today, WordPress
  • Covers plugin fundamentals, how to create and customize hooks, internationalizing your site with translation files, securing plugins, how to create customer users, and ways to lock down specific areas for use in corporate settings
  • Delves into advanced topics, including creating widgets and metaboxes, debugging, using JavaScript and AJAX, Cron integration, custom post types, short codes, multi site functions, and working with the HTTP API
  • Includes pointers on how to debug, profile and optimize your code, and how to market your custom plugin

Learn advanced plugin techniques and extend WordPress into the corporate environment.

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WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

WordPress For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

The bestselling guide to WordPress, fully updated to help you get your blog going!

Millions of bloggers rely on WordPress, the popular, free blogging platform. This guide covers all the features and improvements in the most up-to-date version of WordPress. Whether you are switching to WordPress from another blogging platform or just starting your first blog, you’ll find the advice in this friendly guide gets you up to speed on both the free-hosted WordPress.com version and WordPress.org, which requires the purchase of web hosting services, and figure out which version is best for you. You’ll be able to take full advantage of the flexibility and usability of WordPress.

  • WordPress is a state-of-the-art blog platform that emphasizes aesthetics, web standards, and usability
  • Previous editions of this guide have sold more than 85,000 copies, and interest in blogging continues to explode
  • Illustrates how to set up and maintain a blog with WordPress and how to use all the new features
  • Covers both the free-hosted WordPress.com version and WordPress.org, which requires users to purchase web hosting services
  • Written by an expert who works directly with developers and the cofounder of WordPress

This guide helps bloggers quickly and easily take advantage of everything this popular blogging tool has to offer.The bestselling guide to WordPress, fully updated to help you get your blog going!

Millions of bloggers rely on WordPress, the popular, free blogging platform. This guide covers all the features and improvements in the most up-to-date version of WordPress. Whether you are switching to WordPress from another blogging platform or just starting your first blog, you’ll find the advice in this friendly guide gets you up to speed on both the free-hosted WordPress.com version and WordPress.org, which requires the purchase of web hosting services, and figure out which version is best for you. You’ll be able to take full advantage of the flexibility and usability of WordPress.

  • WordPress is a state-of-the-art blog platform that emphasizes aesthetics, web standards, and usability
  • Previous editions of this guide have sold more than 85,000 copies, and interest in blogging continues to explode
  • Illustrates how to set up and maintain a blog with WordPress and how to use all the new features
  • Covers both the free-hosted WordPress.com version and WordPress.org, which requires users to purchase web hosting services
  • Written by an expert who works directly with developers and the cofounder of WordPress

This guide helps bloggers quickly and easily take advantage of everything this popular blogging tool has to offer.

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WordPress To Go – How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner

WordPress To Go – How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner

Do you want to build your own WordPress website but don’t know where to start? Have you been put off by all the jargon and tech-speak of other guides? If so then this plain, easy WordPress tutorial is the ideal place for you.

Find out exactly what you need to do, step-by-step, in this easy-to-follow WordPress book by expert Sarah McHarry.

In the book’s Quick Start Guide, Sarah shows you how to make a website with WordPress in eight easy lessons.

In the In-Depth Guide, Sarah introduces you to some of the more advanced techniques to help you develop your WordPress website into a fully functional, professional web presence.

What you’ll learn in this book:

  • How to get your domain and the right WordPress hosting
  • How to install WordPress with a few clicks of the mouse
  • How to design a professional-looking WordPress website
  • Adding posts and pages
  • How to use graphics and images
  • All about themes, plugins and widgets
  • … and lots more!

Whether you want a simple WordPress blog or a full-blown ecommerce site, Sarah’s ‘WordPress To Go’ will start you off on the right foot!Do you want to build your own WordPress website but don’t know where to start? Have you been put off by all the jargon and tech-speak of other guides? If so then this plain, easy WordPress tutorial is the ideal place for you.

Find out exactly what you need to do, step-by-step, in this easy-to-follow WordPress book by expert Sarah McHarry.

In the book’s Quick Start Guide, Sarah shows you how to make a website with WordPress in eight easy lessons.

In the In-Depth Guide, Sarah introduces you to some of the more advanced techniques to help you develop your WordPress website into a fully functional, professional web presence.

What you’ll learn in this book:

  • How to get your domain and the right WordPress hosting
  • How to install WordPress with a few clicks of the mouse
  • How to design a professional-looking WordPress website
  • Adding posts and pages
  • How to use graphics and images
  • All about themes, plugins and widgets
  • … and lots more!

Whether you want a simple WordPress blog or a full-blown ecommerce site, Sarah’s ‘WordPress To Go’ will start you off on the right foot!

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