WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials

Creating our plugin

Now that we have a working mockup, we can finally create our plugin. As before, we will start with a simple outline and then flesh it out. This time, however, we're going to introduce a new structure for our plugin and its related files, including several directories and PHP classes. Learning good organization and some object-oriented structures is an important step in your education as a developer.

We are choosing the name "Live Search" for our plugin, so our first step is to create a directory named live-search inside the wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Inside that directory, we recommend the following items:

• An index.php file which houses the Information Header for the plugin
• A directory for style sheets, named css
• A directory ...