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Home WordPress Training Program Plugin Development 🛠️ Introduction to plugin development

Course Lessons

WordPress Training Program

1 Getting started with WordPress 📣
  • What is WordPress
  • Creating a blog and writing daily updates ✍️
  • Installing WordPress
  • WordPress Terminology 📃
  • How WordPress works
  • Understanding WordPress Database Schema
  • Using themes and plugins
2 Setting up Development Environment 👨‍💻
  • Introduction to Git and SVN 🔄
  • Setting up an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  • Pushing changes to site via Git commits/branches
  • Setting up Z shell and Oh My Zsh for fast command line work
3 Coding Standards and Best Practices 💯
  • WordPress Coding Standards (WPCS)
  • PHP_CodeSniffer (PHPCS)
  • Peer Code Review
  • Security 🛡️
  • WordPress Documentation Schema
4 Plugin Development 🛠️
  • Introduction to plugin development
  • Hooks: Actions and Filters
  • Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
  • WordPress Core APIs
  • WP_Query (Custom Query)
  • WordPress AJAX
  • Interacting with remote data and APIs
  • Plugin development assignment
5 Theme Development 👀
  • Anatomy and architecture of a theme
  • Theme Stylesheet and Functions file
  • Template files and hierarchy
  • Customizer
  • Asset Building using Webpack & Babel
  • Child Themes
  • Handling Media in WordPress
  • Theme development assignment
6 Debugging 🐞
  • Introduction to Xdebug
  • EasyEngine site debugging with docker commands
  • How to check Nginx, PHP, and WP Debug logs
7 Advanced Concepts 📜
  • WP-CLI
  • REST API
  • Roles and Capabilities
  • Caching
  • Custom Database Table Creation
  • Optimization ⚡
  • Users and User metadata
  • Cron ⏳⚙️
  • Background Processing
  • Internalization and Localization 🌐
  • Multisite
  • Email with WordPress 📧
8 Block Editor (Gutenberg) 🏗️
  • Default Blocks
  • Creating a block
9 Testing 🤓
  • PHPUnit Test
  • JavaScript: QUnit, Jest
  • ESLint, JSLint, JSHint, JSCS
  • CSS: Stylelint
10 Extras 😃
  • Decoupled
  • GraphQL
  • React and Next.js
  • WooCommerce 🛒
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.0) 🔍
11 Contributing to WordPress ❤️
12 Server Side 🖥️
  • How to check CPU/Memory/Disk Space on a server
  • Rsync and SSH basics
  • How to sync one site with other using WP-CLI and rsync
  • Tmux basics
13 Congratulations 🥳
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Introduction to plugin development

In the previous lessons you learned about WordPress, setting up an IDE, and the coding standards. Now, we are pretty sure that you are ready for plugin development.

First, start with the WordPress Plugin Developer Handbook to the learn plugin development basics.

Once you have understood the concepts outlined in the above handbook and the embedded talks, go through these useful resources by Pippin Williamson.

  • Writing Your First WordPress Plugins, Basic to Advanced
  • Plugin Development 101
  • Plugin Thoughts

While learning plugin development, you also need to learn various HTML elements used in wp-admin. It helps to keep the same UI.
WP-Admin Reference – where you can quickly reference elements from wp-admin.

If you still need more information or guidance of WordPress plugin development, have a look at these videos –

Thomas Vitale: Getting Started With WordPress Plugin Development from WordPress.tv | (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Alain Schlesser: OOP Plugin Development Basics from WordPress.tv | (CC BY-SA 4.0)

WordPress plugin development best practices

Sam Hotchkiss: WP Plugin Development Best Practices from WordPress.tv | (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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