WordPress Plugin is a set of one or more function that is particularly focused on performing certain task either adding a specific set of features or services to the WordPress weblog. It includes at least a PHP file and other files like
css and javascript.
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Familiar with basic functionality of WordPress
and PHP programming
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Installed WordPress with administrative
privilege
The plugins for the WordPress are kept under the same
location at wp_content/plugins. Create a folder with a unique name, the name of
the folder should not coincide with other plugin name, as wp_content/plugins/your_plugin_folder_name . This folder is
supposed to contain all the required files.
Create
a normal PHP file as index.php . The
file contains the two sections:
3.1. Plugin Detail
The descriptions are provided as comment which contains the plugin’s name, description, version and author but there is no limitation to it. You can also add its URI, author URI and license.
3.1. Plugin Detail
The descriptions are provided as comment which contains the plugin’s name, description, version and author but there is no limitation to it. You can also add its URI, author URI and license.
The above information
is used to display in the plugin section.
3.2.
Plugin function
This section is especially focused on the task as the plugin intend to
perform. It contains atleast a function and may contain javascript and css
files as per the complexity. As for example: a simple filter is shown below to add
“Hello World. This is Semicolon Dev” at the end of the content of the pages.
Here, we have used the filter properties of WordPress with the function add_filter();
the filter takes two argument “the_content” which obtains the content of the
post and next argument: a function name “helloworld”. This function adds “Hello
World. This is Semicolon Dev” to the end of every post.
BEFORE
PLUGIN ACTIVATION
AFTER
PLUGIN ACTIVATION