Question: How To Make A WordPress Plugin?
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INTRO: WordPress is a popular content management system used to create and manage websites. If you’re familiar with it and have experience in coding, you can create and extend WordPress functionality by making your own WordPress plugins. Doing this will help you customize WordPress to your needs. In this tutorial, we’ll discuss the steps for how to make a WordPress plugin.
STEP BY STEP DIRECTIONS:
1. Choose a unique and descriptive plugin name, then create a new directory on your server for your plugin with the same name.
2. Create a “.php” file within your plugin directory and name it the same as your plugin.
3. Create a comment block at the beginning of the “.php” file. This comment block should include a Plugin name, Plugin URI, Description, Author, Version and License.
4. Add your plugin code by coding any custom functions or HTML you’d like to add to WordPress.
5. Include the WordPress Plugin API Hooks to call your custom functions and modify the existing plugin functions.
6. Test your plugin.
7. Compress your plugin’s folder into a zip file and upload it or submit it to the WordPress plugin directory.
Estimated Time for Completion: 2-3 hours
SUMMARY: Making a WordPress plugin requires coding and is not for novice users. After choosing and naming your plugin, create a “.php” file in your plugin. Include a comment block and then add your custom code. Include the WordPress Plugin API Hooks to call custom functions and modify the existing plugin functions. Finally, test your plugin and submit it to the WordPress plugin directory or compress it into a zip file and upload it. Overall, this process should take between 2-3 hours to complete.