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Developing Wordpress Plugins (2 days)

This course teaches students how to extend the functionality of the Wordpress publishing system. Students attending this class will learn about the internals of Wordpress, it's database access API, and how to extend and modify the functionality of Wordpress to better integrate into their own environment.

Through a combination of lecture and hands on exercises, students attending this course will build and develop a set of Wordpress filters and actions that allow them to gain fluency in the management and enhancement of the Wordpress system.

Developing Wordpress Plugins Course Calendar (2 days)


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Recommended Pre-requisites

Students attending this course should be experienced PHP developers, and fluent in Structured Query Language (SQL).

Course Outline/Agenda

This Wordpress training covers the following topics:

Understanding the Wordpress development/publishing model
Locating and installing community plugins
Understanding Plugin Terminology
- Plugin Hooks
- Filters & Actions
Understanding the Wordpress DB object
- Retrieving table prefixes
- Utilizing fully qualified table names
- Retrieving meta-data information
- Generating new tables with dbDelta
- Preventing SQL Injection (DB Object escaping)
- Versioning database tables
Developing new plugins
- Understanding wordpress filesystem layout
- Creating plugin files
- Generating the plugin header
- Choosing actions to implement
- Choosing filters to implement
- Determining action arguments
- Creating plugin initialization function(s)
- Creating plugin upgrade function(s)
- Retrieving information utilizing comment and/or post ID's
- Setting plugin activation hooks
- Registering & Removing actions
- Setting up filters
- Registering filters
Determining and viewing default plugins and filters
Replacing built-in plugin/filter functionality
Overriding wordpress built-in functions
- Understanding function override features
- Overriding built-in functions
Extending Wordpress functionality using PEAR components
Understanding Wordpress available hooks and filters
Registering a new plugin.

Class Size

This class is limited to a maximum of 12 students.

On-Site Delivery

This course is available for on-site delivery for groups of 3 or more students.

OTG offers discounted training for on-site courses of more than 3 students - call us at 877-258-8987 (or submit the form on the upper right side of this page) for more information.

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