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Are you interested in creating a WordPress plugin? This article is all about how I learned to build my first plugin. My hope is that it will inspire you to create your own and provide the necessary resources to learn how. So, why did I decide to create a publicly available plugin? There were a number of reasons: I wanted to improve my skills as a developer, give back to the WordPress community, and challenge myself. But the primary event that kicked off this whole endeavor was when a client came to me asking, “Is there a plugin that will […]

The WordPress editor is the central work hub for content creation. Once you have your site up and running, you’ll probably spend about 80% of your time there. If you think about it, that’s pretty impressive. One part of your website that lets you take care of 80% of your work? Sounds like a powerful tool. The WordPress editor is something we take for granted. Its look, behavior, the even its formatting options are so intuitive that even newbies will quickly become familiar with it. This familiarity, however, is somewhat artificial. Just like the rest of the platform, you can customize […]