Sometimes the best way to learn more WP programming is to just jump in and create your first-ever WordPress plugin. But where do you start? What tutorials should you follow? How should you really begin? Well, perhaps we can remove all that anxiety off the table and just follow Chris Ross to the promised land as he walks you right through the process:
Any of you notice we removed /extend/ from http://t.co/WWjyx49GLS URLs? Figured there’d be more rejoicing. http://t.co/VdRnR1srWt — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) May 22, 2013 I noticed this the other day as I was linking up some posts that were referencing some great plugins and the “/extend/” part of the URL was gone! As one reply mentioned:
We’ve got such a great community surrounding what we do here at WP Daily that it really keeps the motivation more than high enough to get up each day and report on one of the best technologies out there, WordPress! As you’re already used to, we love giveaways (we’ve got 15 hours left on our lifetime accounts one!) and we try to do a few every month that make sense for our growing community – not everyone who pitches us gets through our gates as there are many products and services that downright suck. Yes, suck. Sorry, but they do. But […]
This past week has been an absolute blur – busyness hit an all-time high today as I had a keynote at a conference early in the morning, my daughter’s soccer game, and 3 back-to-back-to-back birthday parties and then my wife had a girl’s night out while I took care of the kids. Whew. I’m drained. But it’s a “good” type of drained, you know? Hope you’re having a great weekend yourself. With that, here’s your Weekend WordPress Roundup:
The plugin repository can be a wild west at times, especially if you’re looking for a very specific plugin or feature that you can’t quite build (or don’t want to build) on your own time. Google doesn’t help much as it drums up stuff that looks incredibly sketchy and you don’t have much time to spend on this in the first place. Perhaps you need to check out this site that has organized plugins based on a few criteria that you might find helpful as well as filtering system that may actually work for you:
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