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Professional WordPress Plugin Development, 2nd Edition

by Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, John James Jacoby

June 2020

Intermediate to advanced

480 pages

11h 59m

English

Wrox

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WHO THIS BOOK IS FORWHAT YOU NEED TO USE THIS BOOKWHAT THIS BOOK COVERSHOW THIS BOOK IS STRUCTUREDCONVENTIONSSOURCE CODEERRATA
WHAT IS A PLUGIN?AVAILABLE PLUGINSADVANTAGES OF PLUGINSINSTALLING AND MANAGING PLUGINSSUMMARY
REQUIREMENTS FOR PLUGINSBEST PRACTICESPLUGIN HEADERDETERMINING PATHSACTIVATE/DEACTIVATE FUNCTIONSUNINSTALL METHODSCODING STANDARDSSUMMARY
ADDING MENUS AND SUBMENUSPLUGIN SETTINGSTHE OPTIONS APITHE SETTINGS APIKEEPING IT CONSISTENTSUMMARY
SECURITY OVERVIEWUSER PERMISSIONSNONCESDATA VALIDATION AND SANITIZATIONFORMATTING SQL STATEMENTSSECURITY GOOD HABITSPERFORMANCE OVERVIEWCACHINGTRANSIENTSSUMMARY
UNDERSTANDING HOOKSACTIONSFILTERSUSING HOOKS FROM WITHIN A CLASSUSING HOOKS WITH ANONYMOUS FUNCTIONSCREATING CUSTOM HOOKSFINDING HOOKSSUMMARY
REGISTERING SCRIPTSENQUEUEING SCRIPTSLIMITING SCOPELOCALIZING SCRIPTSINLINE SCRIPTSOVERVIEW OF BUNDLED SCRIPTSPOLYFILLSYOUR CUSTOM SCRIPTSjQueryBACKBONE/UNDERSCOREREACTSUMMARY
WHAT IS GUTENBERG?TOURING GUTENBERGPRACTICAL EXAMPLESTECHNOLOGY STACK OF GUTENBERG“HELLO WORLD!” BLOCKWP‐CLI SCAFFOLDINGCREATE‐GUTEN‐BLOCK TOOLKITBLOCK DIRECTORYSUMMARY

CREATING CUSTOM POST TYPESPOST METADATAMETA BOXESCREATING CUSTOM TAXONOMIESUSING CUSTOM TAXONOMIESA POST TYPE, POST METADATA, AND TAXONOMY PLUGINSUMMARY
WORKING WITH USERSROLES AND CAPABILITIESLIMITING ACCESSCUSTOMIZING ROLESSUMMARY
WHAT IS CRON?SCHEDULING CRON EVENTSTRUE CRONPRACTICAL USESUMMARY
INTERNATIONALIZATION AND LOCALIZATIONCREATING TRANSLATION FILESSUMMARY
WHAT THE REST API ISWHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE REST APIACCESSING THE WORDPRESS REST APITHE HTTP APIWORDPRESS’ HTTP FUNCTIONSBRINGING IT ALL TOGETHERSUMMARY
TERMINOLOGYADVANTAGES OF MULTISITEENABLING MULTISITE IN WORDPRESSMULTISITE FUNCTIONSDATABASE SCHEMAQUERY CLASSESOBJECT CLASSESSUMMARY
QUERYING AND DISPLAYING POSTSSHORTCODESWIDGETSDASHBOARD WIDGETSREWRITE RULESTHE HEARTBEAT APISUMMARY
COMPATIBILITYDEBUGGINGERROR LOGGINGQUERY MONITORSUMMARY
CORE AS REFERENCEPLUGIN DEVELOPER HANDBOOKCODEXTOOL WEBSITESCOMMUNITY RESOURCESTOOLSSUMMARY

Overview

Extend WordPress with plugins using this advanced WordPress development book, updated for the current version

This significantly updated edition of Professional WordPress Plugin Development addresses modern plugin development for WordPress, the highly popular content management system (CMS). If you’re using WordPress to create and manage websites, WordPress plugins are the software that can extend or enhance CMS functionality. This book offers guidance on writing plugins for WordPress sites to share or sell to other users.

The second edition of Professional WordPress Plugin Development covers the building of advanced plugin development scenarios. It discusses the plugin framework and coding standards as well as dashboards, settings, menus, and related application programming interfaces (APIs). Additional topics include security, performance, data validation, and SQL statements.

• Learn about the power of hooks in WordPress

• Discover how JavaScript and Ajax will work in your site

• Understand key technologies: Block Editor/Gutenberg, JS/React, PHP, and the REST API

• Create and use custom post types and taxonomies.

• Creating custom dashboard menus and plugin settings

• Work with users and user data

• Schedule tasks and utilizing Cron

• Performance and security considerations

Written by experienced plugin developers, Professional WordPress Plugin Development also helps you internationalize and localize your WordPress website. Find out about debugging systems and optimizing your site for speed. As WordPress use continues to increase, you can elevate your professional knowledge of how to extend WordPress through plugins.