A novice guide to wordpress plugin development

WordPress is an awesome publishing tool, and one of the best features is its flexibility to customize its core functions with plugins. The simplest definition of a plugin is:

A plugin is a snippet of code which is used to extend the functionality of WordPress.

And one of the nicest things about plugins is that the barrier to entry is extremely low. It takes very little technical knowledge to make your first plugin!

Read the rest of the article

Comments are closed.

RSS
contact wpspecial
about us
get featured if you own a special installation of wordpress and want wpspecial to review it, then click the link above and fill out the form

7 New things coming with Wordpress 3.0

Default Theme

Let’s begin with something that waited to be updated a lot of time. The default theme. Wave goodbye to Kubrick and say hello to 2010. Rumors say that… read more

PollDaddy redesigned

PollDaddy, the polling service that integrates perfectly with Wordpress, and the one that bought by Automatic on October 15th, 2008, has finally redesigned.

Rich re… read more

Wordpress 2.9.2 released

Today, and after an alert about thrashed posts being viewable from logged in users (not post authors), we have a new security update. Webmasters of sites that have untr… read more

Menu Management in Wordpress 3.0

Today, we’ve read from the WPtavern and the wp-ui mailing list, that the next major update of wordpress, will incorporate one killer feature: Menu Management a… read more