WordPress Plugin Development for Beginner’s Guide

WordPress has come a long way in the past couple of years. The amount of usage has increased considerably and it is now the blogging platform of choice for many big online names.

As the WordPress monster grows, so does the community surrounding it. Plug in developers and theme designers are all around, but what if you want to become part of this community and don’t know where to start? There are currently a sprinkling of books to tutor plugin developers and theme designers, but more are starting to appear.

Vladimir knows what he is talking about when it comes to WordPress plugins, he has developed quite a few and talks about these plugins in the book

The book consists of 8 chapters, six of which are dealing with development of actual plugins from scratch, some of them you may be already familiar with:

Introductory chapter explains why engage in WordPress plugin development and shows the best tools for the job.

Final chapter deals with plugin localization, promotion, providing support and few other handy tips.

You can find the detailed information in the book’s Table of Contents.

Anyone who wishes to engage in WordPress development, from beginners to seasoned developers. The examples grow in complexity so that beginners are able to easily follow and for the veterans out there I have couple of handy tricks (security, optimization and general programming)  in every chapter.

Ideally you need to be familiar with basics of PHP. The book also utilizes jQuery – handy JavaScript framework – for handling live visual effects and Ajax.