WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook: Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

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OMG! WHAT A GREAT BOOK!This is THE book to get if you've ever fantasized about being a WordPress power player. From the getgo, this book offers up detailed info and examples on how to write your own plugins. I don't know how many times I've looked for plugins on WordPress only to be discouraged because what I wanted a.) wasn't available at all b.) was part of a humungous plugin that added all sorts of crap I didn't need or want, or c.) was out of the Ukraine and couldn't be trusted for security reasons. A lot of times I just wanted a simple plugin that only did one simple thing and found it didn't exist. This book changed all that. Now, I can write exactly what I want, know how it works and I can maintain it myself.It was written before WordPress 5 but so far I've had no problems. You don't have to be a computer genius either. I have knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript but only really needed a very basic knowledge of PHP. Nothing beyond beginner level.I hope they keep updating this book. Even if they don't I've learned soooooo much I now have a solid foundation and can progress from here.Many thanks to the author and Packt for putting out such a great book.

Incredibly well written and easy to pick up. I love that it increases complexity in such a gradual manner.* Update * - I had given this book 5 stars. I'm using the Kindle version and once I get to around 34% into the book, the formatting goes berserk. I noticed the issue on other pages too. Instead of a sentence, i get one character per line. I'd love to give this 5 stars again, but the book is unusable in digital format.* Another update * - The issues I'm having are with Kindle's cloud reader online. It looks perfectly decent on my actual kindle.

This book is for developers who know at least some PHP. After my company abruptly decided to switch to Wordpress for their news site this book gave me a quick ramp up to be able to show I know something about plugins quickly. It's a good intro for developers to WordPress Plugins by showing some real-world examples.

The switch from Drupal to Wordpress has been fairly painless thanks to this book! I was off and running and building plugins on the first day of my Wordpress adventures. A great book with just the right information in the right format.

This book is a good basic treatment of WP plugin development. It covers most of what a plugin developer needs to get started, and it contains numerous references to official documentation. Two things I was hoping to learn was how implement an advanced plugin UI, and how to implement repeater fields within custom post types. Making a plugin UI is touched upon through some of the examples, but they are rather simplistic. I didn’t find anything on implementing repeater fields. Security and field validation are barely touched upon. That said, nearly every section is formatted consistently making this book is an easy read, and easy to quickly reference later.

I usually never use books/ebooks when reading about software development. I have to admit that the way the book is structured and how easy the examples are built makes it a "reference book" I really enjoyed. I loved how many examples there is and the fact they are linked to practical use cases. Any developer that starts developing plugins for WordPress should buy it.

This book is super. It is packed with info and from it I quickly wrote a certificate tracker for LearnDash LMS based on the bug tracker. The author explains everything in detail and the code is organized properly so its a snap to activate the next plugin in the series as you ramp up. Highly recommended.

good seller, good product

Alles was man zum Plugin entwickeln braucht

Its good for basic understanding about plugin development. But Codex will be the right place for all answers.