WordPress Plugin Development - Stop Worrying About Customer Support by Developing WP Plugins!

WordPress Plugin Development - Customize WordPress To Your Desires By Developing Your Own WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugin development takes the hassle of tech support out of software development! Once you have developed your plugin for WordPress all you or your customer has to do is upload it to the plugins folder on their web server and activate it in the WordPress dashboard.

Talk about easy installation!

What You Need To Get Started In WordPress Plugin Development


A test environment (a WordPress blog set up specifically for testing purposes).
A firm grasp of PHP.
Knowledge of how WordPress plugins work.
An idea for a great and innovative plugin.

Let's discuss the above statements one at a time shall we?

Setting Up A Plugin Development Test Environment If you have a cpanel web host chances are that you can setup a new WordPress blog in less than a minute. What you need to do is create a sub domain that you will only use for testing purposes. Then after the sub domain is all set up, assuming your web host has the Fantastico feature, you install a new blog on your new sub domain using Fantastico.

All of this shouldn't have set you back more than a couple of minutes!

Side note: If you don't have cpanel or Fantastico you just have to set up a blog on a sub domain the old fashioned way.

To Develop Plugins You Need A Firm Grasp Of PHP Well, although it is an advantage it's not entirely true. You can actually just learn PHP as you go along, but there is no doubt that you would be better off going through some basic guides on PHP first.

You Need To Know How WordPress Plugins Work Before Getting Started Again that would be a huge advantage, but it is entirely possible to learn as you go. In fact, if you're just getting into plugin development you probably don't know that much about how they work. My recommendation is that you find a simple existing plugin and try to figure out how it works. The "Hello Dolly" plugin is a great place to start.

Side note: A good way to learn is to make slight alterations to existing plugins and see what happens.

Great Plugin Ideas This is the only part I really can't help you with. If you're an "idea-man" it will come naturally, if not, you'll have to work harder.

Pretty much anything is possible. Let your imagination wander and find those golden ideas.

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From Michael B Humphrey and mostlyclientside.com