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Introduction to WordPress Plugin Development

by Chris Reynolds

Learn the essentials of WordPress plugin development and start writing your own plugins for fun and profit (seriously)!

What you'll learn

WordPress plugin development is easier than it looks. In this course I’ll talk about why you might want to create a plugin in the first place, how to make use of built in WordPress functions to make your job easier, and what to do with your plugin once it’s written.

About the author

Chris Reynolds is a WordPress developer for WebDevStudios and has been a freelance web designer and developer specializing in WordPress since 2007. He has spoken at WordCamp Salt Lake City and WordPress SLC meetups, and has submitted plugins and themes to the WordPress.org repository. When he’s not writing code or making videos, he makes electronic music and cheers for Real Salt Lake.

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