User Guide

CREATING YOUR OWN PLUGINS

There are thousands of plug-ins available, over 10,000 - but amazingly there will

come the time when you want a plug-in that doesn’t exist, or those available

don’t quite do what your want, or perhaps don’t work with your version of

WordPress.

This is a more advanced topic, and covered in detail in the Advanced

User Guide, you can skip this if you like!

So you’re going to need your own plug-in developed.

There are essentially two ways to create a

theme

As with developing themes, this will depend on how technical you are. Are you a

web developer, or want to learn (and have a lot of spare time to do so)?

Creating your own plug-ins

This is out of scope for this guide. If you want to create your own, bear in mind

that you will need to be proficient at:

•

HTML

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CSS (Stylesheets) - using DIV’s for layout, for example

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PHP

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Probably (depending on the plugin) MySQL databases

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How websites “work”

You will also need to have at least a reasonable understanding of:

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Graphic design (depending on how much graphic work is required)

WordPress 3 User Guide" Chapter 8: Plugins