24 Responses to “Review: WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials”

1. MegaGicio says:

   July 27, 2011 at 2:31 am

   oye me puedes ayudar cmo creear cmo los de tv si eviarme un mesaje en el msn al gicio_1996@live.com.ar
2. megarisa1234 says:

   July 27, 2011 at 2:54 am

   me encanto el video
3. caritomummy says:

   July 27, 2011 at 3:54 am

   @minijosed perdon que me entrometa pero yo tengo 46 años y aun asi no se me hiso tan dificil animo lo lograras¡¡¡¡¡
4. alexisar100 says:

   July 27, 2011 at 4:02 am

   como la perzonaliso
5. administratutiempo says:

   July 27, 2011 at 4:28 am

   Que tal

   Aunque ya tengo un tiempo escribiendo para mi blog en wordpress, me parecio excelente la idea de compartir el cómo hacer un blog allí.

   Enhorabuena por tu video, me parecio genial este tutorial, de haberlo visto antes y no me hubiera costado tanto trabajo.

   Saludos

   Atte. Manuel Lecuanda
6. marianaes28 says:

   July 27, 2011 at 4:46 am

   Excelente
7. annettemit says:

   July 27, 2011 at 5:21 am

   Gracias por el tutorial! Muy facil y practico de entender!!!
8. kajiher89 says:

   July 27, 2011 at 5:56 am

   me fue muy util.. graciias
9. ArqturaDeirElMedina says:

   July 27, 2011 at 6:33 am

   se puede utilizar para negocios?
10. minijosed says:

    July 27, 2011 at 7:30 am

    al carajo con esto es mui dificil!!!
11. MrS3B4STi4N says:

    July 27, 2011 at 7:58 am

    como se borra?
12. julielinares says:

    July 27, 2011 at 8:21 am

    hola
13. starky954 says:

    July 27, 2011 at 8:35 am

    hola amigo.. estoy aprendiendo ahora sobre esto de paginas web.
    y real mente no se nada pero ya kiero enpesar a crear sy me ayudas estare muy agradecido grax..
14. anyta18jp says:

    July 27, 2011 at 9:01 am

    gracias por el tuto, me ha servido mucho, aunque no sé si debería registrarme, tengo varios blogs en blogspot, y creo que blogspot es mucho más sencillo, aunque el aspecto ordenado y más profesional de wordpress me ha encantado, pero para una principiante como yo en el html y códigos en general, no sé si sea buena idea…. aunque todo es aprender en esta vida
15. evanyelion says:

    July 27, 2011 at 9:03 am

    yo tengo una curiosidad me llegaban mensajes q mi bandeja msn me decia q ay q mudar mi el espacio personal a wordpres.com asi que me mude a esa pagina pense q no iva a aver canbios pero ya no aparece el reproductor de musica no esta la presentacion de fotos no se si se pueda recuperar mi espacio de windowslive era mas sencillo y mas bonito y fasil de editar o si alguien sabe si se puede poner esas caracterisiticas xfis si se hacen un tutorial sobre ello graxias
16. mrProfe503 says:

    July 27, 2011 at 9:06 am

    se pueden enviar correos aqui yo de esto no se nada orientame porfabor explica en otro video me suscribo aqui para esperar tu respuesta
17. homero876 says:

    July 27, 2011 at 9:07 am

    Es Bueno tus video pero los buscadores no de Indexan los articulos pero para empezar esta bien
18. crearblogs says:

    July 27, 2011 at 9:46 am

    Algo para tener en cuenta al momento de elegir el nombre del dominio (URL) es el uso de palabras claves, es decir, las palabras claves ayudan facilitar que las personas que puedan encontrar tu blog en Google y otros buscadores.

    El uso de las palabras claves mejoran el posicionamiento en los buscadores.

    Saludos
19. axelskater1 says:

    July 27, 2011 at 10:25 am

    grax pero la proccima aselo mas rapido un poco mas rapido
20. Anonymous says:

    July 27, 2011 at 11:01 am

    
    Good approach to teaching the key concepts, July 15, 2011

    By 

    E. Campbell “omnivore” (Canton, GA USA) –
    
      

    This review is from: WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials (Paperback)

    There were two things about this book that I really liked: First, it didn’t start with just writing a useless “Hello, World” program. Instead, it begins by guiding you through *breaking* an existing plugin, illustrating the sorts of errors you might come across on your own, and how to fix the problems when they occur. Then they move on to modifying the plugin to show how some simple changes affect how it works. Second, they don’t spend the whole book building up one monolithic project like a shopping cart or product catalog site. Instead, each of the main chapters builds an individual plugin, with distinct functionality. Each plugin helps illustrate several concepts important to being able to build your own plugins.

    On the down side, there were a couple of places where the authors missed out on using some best practices. In building their Ajax Search plugin, they did not use the existing WordPress Ajax APIs, which make a plugin more adaptable to various site configurations. Instead, they use a more fragile method of using a separate server-side component which has to hard-code the path to the wp-loader file. This is a pretty common mistake, but definitely one to avoid. Also, when illustrating how to build settings pages for plugins, they build the form HTML by hand, rather than using the Settings API. By using the Settings API, they would help future-proof the code against future stylistic changes in the admin interface, and would also automatically get handling option data validation and saving options to the database.

    Overall, I’d say this is quite a good book for both beginners and advanced developers wishing to learn how to build plugins for WordPress (keeping in mind the two caveats I mentioned). They begin with simple examples of how to fetch and use post information and explanations of WordPress ‘action’ and ‘filter’ hooks, and move on to more advanced topics such as the WP_Widget class, creating option pages, creating custom post types, and using the shortcode API.

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21. Anonymous says:

    July 27, 2011 at 11:06 am

    
    A good overview for devs interested in WordPress plug-ins, July 11, 2011

    By 

    Joseph Dolson (Saint Paul, MN) –
    
      

    This review is from: WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials (Paperback)

    At root, this book is an excellent overview of the techniques and issues which will be encountered by any developer — however experienced — when they are authorizing a plug-in using the WordPress plug-in API in WordPress 3. In particular, I appreciated the emphasis on organization and coding best practices. I’ve worked with plenty of plug-ins, and there’s a lot of ugly, unmaintainable code out there. (And I’ve written some of it, too!) The fact that anybody looking to develop a plug-in who uses this book as a major reference will also get a guide to some best practices in writing software is a <strong>definite</strong> bonus.

    The authors are very realistic about the limitations and benefits of the WordPress plug-in system. They observe that WordPress has a great deal of flexibility when it comes to coding style and organization — and the result is that there’s a low resistance to entry. Great for beginners, but it does mean that trusting the code you find is something you shouldn’t do blindly. Clearly the authors want to emphasize that anybody looking to begin developing plug-ins should give some significant thought to the sustainability and quality of their work. Kudos to them!

    The book doesn’t cover an enormous number of different API functions, but it does give a good overview of the key hooks that are needed to get started programming for WordPress. Given the scope of what can be done in WordPress, it’s really a better solution to solidly introduce some of the core techniques rather than try and cram a huge number of concepts down the throats of their readers.

    I found the systematic approach taken by the book to be extremely effective — I appreciated that the book intentionally had the reader introduce common errors into their plug-ins. Having encountered most of those issues by accident somewhere along the line, it’s tremendously valuable to already have been made aware of some key elements.

    I do think that this is a good book, and very worthwhile for the beginning plug-in developer. There are a few additional areas which I would have liked to have seen covered, however.

    Although the book is very thorough in addressing programming best practices, it doesn’t address the quality of output code at all. Valid HTML, consistent use of elements, semantics, and accessibility are all issues which deserve a significant mention in the programming of a WordPress extension — however easily the plug-in can be maintained, if it doesn’t produce high-quality output, this can be a major disadvantage for the plug-in. It is very dissatisfying to install a plug-in which does exactly what you need it to, but produces output which can’t easily be styled or doesn’t meet the standards required for your web site.

    Nonetheless, there are no other issues which I felt were truly missed — the book is well-written, thorough, and methodical. I can highly recommend it to anybody looking to start authoring WordPress plug-ins.

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22. Anonymous says:

    July 27, 2011 at 11:33 am

    
    What a great book., June 23, 2011

    By 

    Taylor Jasko –

    This review is from: WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials (Paperback)

    It’s without a doubt that WordPress is one of the largest content management systems out there. WordPress has been known for its easy to use software and along with its extendability.

    WordPress’s extendability features, called plugins, have always been loved by WordPress’s users as they provide an elegant system to expand WordPress to do practically anything.

    With Packt Publishing’s latest WordPress book, WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials, it provides a nice and fairly detailed (281 pages) description on how WordPress 3 handles plugins.

    What I really love about WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is that it starts off the first few chapters very simply. When just reading the first chapter, it explains on how setting up your WordPress development system, best coding practices (which can be used for no matter what you’re programming), and how handle testing, code versioning, security, along with other things. For anyone reading this book, they most likely already have programming experience, and because the authors decided to start this book out in a way that’s not too in a rush, it really means quite a bit. It’s a great way to start off a book entirely on development…

    Just like the first chapter, the second chapter doesn’t rush you at all; in fact, it’s more of giving you baby steps to start building powerful WordPress plugins. Any kind of developing book can be boring with all that computer code. But the best part I love about WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is that you’re not going to be seeing pages and pages of code; the authors give you some code, and describing what it’s accomplishing. I’ve seen books that have two or three pages, back to back, that’s filled with code only. No reader is going to give that code a good glance, it’ll just confuse them. So with WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials, it takes a completely different approach; it takes the main functions of a plugin, the anatomy of a plugin, and breaks it down in an easy to comprehend way.

    In the second chapter, there’s one thing that rather surprised me in a WordPress plugin development book. In just the second chapter, the author has you making a plugin, that is, an “evil functionless plugin”. The author includes some errors in the plugin, where to put the header() function, whether or not to close the PHP tags (this was my favorite part of the chapter. Some WordPress users may edit a plugin, put some whitespace at the bottom, and find that everything is not working right. I’m glad this was added.), and a brief explanation to hooks.

    With WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials brief introduction to hooks, the authors did one amazing job describing how they work in a simple manner. Hooks are extremely important in WordPress plugin development, if you didn’t have it, your plugin wouldn’t be as effective.

    The next section of WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials is where everything starts coming together. The book guides you though implementing a Digg social media button next to each post. An easy concept, but ideal for learning how WordPress handles its plugins. The steps taken in this chapter to implement this feature is so nicely laid out, that you can practically use it as a guide when writing your own plugin. The authors don’t rush into things, they make sure what you’re going to implement will work, layout the general plan, create the main system, test it, add some more, and test it again. This approach was something that I really appreciated. As a programmer myself knowing many languages (really, don’t get me started), I can truly say you want to take programming step by step.

    The next two chapters are very similar to the previous one. You learn how to create a content rotator in the widget (typically a sidebar) section, which is very popular among WordPress blogs, and using the power of custom fields to expand the attached content to a post. With the content rotator, they could have integrated some neat jQuery content rotator, but I’m sure the reader can figure that out after reading the chapter. This is actually a very crucial chapter though, you learn how to integrate a widget with custom settings into WordPress! After that, you’r going right to the custom fields. Custom fields in WordPress is simply a way to put more content into your posts and do something with it. Personally, I use custom fields quite a bit on Tech Cores to get many of the things done that WordPress can’t do out of the box.

    What’s fairly ironic is the how WordPress 3 Plugin Development Essentials described on how to implement custom fields is nearly identical to the way on how I accomplished it. Anyways, when getting back to the topic, I was very thrilled to read over this section. If there’s one thing you should pick up from this book, it would have to be custom fields. With this small little feature, you can…

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