June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 59m
English
book
Professional WordPress Plugin Development, 2nd Edition
by Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, John James Jacoby
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14The Kitchen Sink
WordPress has changed a lot over the years. In the first edition of this book, many of the sections in this chapter had their own chapters. However, some of these topics are not as important to WordPress plugin development today as they once were. Other sections of this chapter cover smaller things that did not have a home anywhere else in this book.
In this chapter, you will be getting the “kitchen sink”; everything and anything not covered elsewhere is here. Much of this chapter will be high‐level overviews of topics you may find yourself exploring further on your own.
QUERYING AND DISPLAYING POSTS
Generally speaking, WordPress will automatically query posts from the database on a given page view. Then, the user's theme will display the posts in the layout the theme designer has chosen. Theme development is outside the scope of what you are learning from this book on developing plugins. However, there is some crossover, and you will need to query and display posts from time to time.
In this section of the chapter, ...