Comments on: How To Build Your WordPress Plugin Development Infrastructure

By: Jason Baker

Jason Baker — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:50 +0000

Nice post on WP plugin programming. Am no stranger to PHP though. It does however help quite a bit if you have a solid foundation on PHP to get you started. Nice post on “mothballing” your blog Dave.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:43:24 +0000

Jason, I like your PDF power article. Thanks for stopping by.
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By: Jason Baker

Jason Baker — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:18:26 +0000

I would recommend PHP 5 for Dummies. Their books are good for learning some basic techniques. Not to mention you can make your way to my site if you like. I have some simple tutorials over there as well. Hope this helps.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:24:50 +0000

Yeah, here’s what to do: ignore everything I wrote in this post for now, and don’t fool with building a sandbox. Yet.

Instead, just poke at a simple plugin using Notepad and FTP.

I do recommend setting a test blog though. A blog you can totally delete when you wreck it with bad php. But it won’t come to that. Just delete the bad plugin with your FTP client.

I’ll have a suite of tiny little demo plugins ready soon. Within a couple of weeks for sure. I’ll announce them on the newsletter. The link is here: http://website-in-a-weekend.net/plugins/

Once you get addicted, then build out your sandbox and get after it.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:18:51 +0000

It’s kind of a little dream of mine to one day know how to creat Wordpress Plugins. First I want to learn to build Wordpress Themes from scratch. I am taking things one step at a time since I have SO much to do and SO much to learn.

But … the extent of my programming experience is … well, when I was about 8 years old, around 1983, we had a Texas Instrument Computer. It had a blue screen and white letters. My sisters and I could program it to spit out characters on the screen in different patterns and sequences. It was SOOOO cool …. we played with it for hours.

So … yeah I am a very experienced computer programmer. I should have a degree.

Where would someone like me start? Ie, someone with my intense extensive knowledge and skill in programming? Is there a good “for Dummies” book? I obviously wouldn’t have to start with Wordpress Plugins … but I should start from somewhere.

Just curious, if you have any ideas …