WordPress Complete - Sixth Edition

Building plugins from scratch

First of all, you're here to learn about WordPress, so in this particular case, we will indeed build things from scratch. This is always the best approach to get an in-depth look into how a particular technology works.

However, later on, once you're working with WordPress on a regular basis managing your own or other people's websites, I actually advise you to always look for an already existing plugin before deciding to write a new one yourself. As I mentioned earlier, there are around 51,000 plugins in the official directory alone, not to mention all the premium plugins available all over the web. In short, if you need some functionality, most likely, there's a plugin for it, so you can just go out and get ...