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I had an amazing conversation with Brandan Sera-Shriar during lunch here at WordCamp Toronto. He is involved in a lot of very interesting projects and is also a teacher at a College!!!

Building plug-ins in Wordpress is very easy and does not need a lot of programming knowledge. A great way to get started is to take a plug-in and copy and paste the code and develop a new one.

There is a limit to what a plug-in can do and will want to customize it to whatever you want. Look is just as important as functionality in a successful plug-in.

HTML/CSS, PHP and MySQL skills are great to have

Check out the source of the plug-ins and make small changes. See what the effect is. If the plug-in is from a good source then it will be well documented. This is the best way to learn. Do this on your local host so that you don’t crash your site.

Design a basic template that you can use overall when designing multiple plug-ins.

He does not release his plug-ins to the community however if you do want them he will make it available to you

Plug-in 101

• Create a folder in the /wp-content/plugins/pluginname/
• Give the plug-in a name.
• Describe, authors. This is standard stuff.
• Comments section
• Add code for option menu
• Setup the Options Page
• Register the activation and deactivation hooks
• Function
• Save as a php file

Side bar info…

Breadcrumb

Can have one database for multiple sites with different look and feel.

Wordpress plug-in competition is coming up for 2009.

Tags: WordCamp Toronto, wordpress

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