Creating Plugins to Extend WordPress

Developing Custom Plugins with PHP and the WordPress API

4.25 (77 reviews)

Udemy

platform

English

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Web Development

What you will learn

Learn how to create your WordPress plugins and widgets

Once you have completed this training course, you will have learned how to create and distribute your own plugins using PHP and the WordPress API

Why take this course?

In this Creating Plugins to Extend WordPress training course, expert author Joe Chellman will teach you how to create your own plugins using the WordPress API. This course is designed for users that already have a basic working knowledge of WordPress.

You will start by learning about the highlights of the WordPress API, then jump into creating your first plugin: a dashboard banner. From there, Joe will teach you how to create your second plugin, as well as how to further enhance your plugin, including how to create a widget for custom posts, register settings and sections, and prepare your plugin for localization. This video tutorial also covers additional plugin possibilities, such as using transients to cache expensive operations, implementing the transients API, and reacting to deactivation and uninstallation of your plugin. Finally, you will learn how to distribute your plugin, including how to publish independently on GitHub and submit to the WordPress plugin directory.

Once you have completed this computer based training course, you will have learned how to create and distribute your own plugins using PHP and the WordPress API. Working files are included, allowing you to follow along with the author throughout the lessons.

Reviews

Jeffery

December 12, 2023

Well done videos and well designed instruction. Good for a general overview of working with WordPress to make plugins and custom post types. You'll need a strong working knowledge of PHP or you'll be lost. Last updated 2015. A lot has changed since then.

Janice

January 3, 2023

He has a very clear voice that makes it very easy to understand and follow. He is not wordy and his explanations are very concise.

Ioannis

January 18, 2020

Good overview of what professionally can be done with WordPress but not many examples are presented. Also the WP REST API has already been in core as we speak. Nevertheless, it gives nice advice on Transient, How to make CPTs and why to use OOP in WP. It's kind outdated now (early 2020 writing this review).

Stefan

July 25, 2019

Is best course related to wordpress for me. Is what i searching for from the beghining of my work with wordpress, many yea rs before. This course clarify my ideas related of hooks and clases in wordpress, and witch is the good practices.

Fox

March 8, 2019

Absolutely first rate! Super organized, super well explained, instructor speaks very clearly and is an expert developer and teacher.

Çağlar

April 23, 2018

Lecturer assumes that you knows WP verywell. He copies and pastes a lot of ready to use codes from somewhere. He uses another plugins while creating new plugin. He doesn't explain built-in functions well. He may explain plugin structure and anatomy with more details. And please give more examples from real life.

Lee

July 31, 2017

fast paced, beginner to intermediate level, without fluff. well explained. Great that he sets you up COMPLETELY on IDE's, packages etc, so you're good to go.

Dustin

June 15, 2017

Definitely one of the best WP dev education sources I've come across. I docked it one star because 2 of the videos are out of date. It doesn't make it impossible to follow along with the course though.

Michael

May 29, 2017

If you're an intermediate Wordpress developer (not afraid to deep dive into PHP) and you are interested in adding custom features to your themes, this is a great overview course for you! It's a little outdated (recorded in August 2015), but all of the resources and principles covered should be more than enough to get you started building custom plugins. Highly recommended!