Wordpress Plugin Development

Complete guide on WordPress Plugin Development with a real life API using PHP, JSON and Ajax.

What you'll learn
Create a plugin for WordPress
Work with Hooks, Actions and Filters
Work with API's in wordpress
Create an admin page for your plugin
Create widgets
Create shortcodes
Requirements
You should be comfortable with working with WordPress
You Should have written some PHP before, or know it's concepts.
You should be able to understand HTML and CSS
Description
This step-by-step course will teach you how to create your own plugin for WordPress using methods that are being used for WordPress pluging Development by industry experts. When you are finished with the course you will know how to create a fully functional Plugin that is created with PHP, HTML, CSS and AJAX and uses data we get from the New York Times using an API!Over 2 hours of video in which you will learn everything you need to know to get you started with creating plugins. I will tot only teach how to create a plugin but also what to do and what not to do. But there is more. We are working with an Application Programming Interface (API). With that API we fetch real time data from the New York Times and show that on our website. With the techniques you learn, you can build your own plugin, with an admin page, front-end widget or shortcodes. You can even get data from other API's out there, like Twitter or Facebook. I know the whole idea of creating a plugin can be overwhelming, do do not hesitate to contact me, i will make sure I guide you and help you. If you are not pleased with the content, you can ask for a 100% refund, no questions asked.For this course you will need a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and PHP. This course will not teach you how to write PHP but how to create a WordPress plugin with PHP. 

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Introduction of Actions and Filters

Lecture 3 Examples of Actions and Filters

Lecture 4 New York Times API

Lecture 5 Theme Resources

Section 2: Developing a WordPress Plugin

Lecture 6 Create a plugin Template

Lecture 7 Basic Design for our settings page

Lecture 8 Styling the Admin page

Lecture 9 One More Form

Lecture 10 Working with forms in WordPress

Lecture 11 CRUD

Section 3: Integrate the plugin with an 3rd party API

Lecture 12 JSON as an API

Lecture 13 Getting and storing the JSON feed

Lecture 14 Parsing JSON with PHP

Lecture 15 Creating the correct loop

Section 4: Widgets and Shortcodes

Lecture 16 Create a widget

Lecture 17 Add settings to the Widget

Lecture 18 Styling with CSS

Lecture 19 Create Shortcode functionality

Lecture 20 Using AJAX to refresh the feed

Section 5: Conclusion

Lecture 21 Wrap up

When you are learning more about WordPress and want to make the next step by building your own plugin that will seed your needs.