Most of the time, you find out that there may be need to write your own plugins while still leveraging the huge collection of plugins in the wordpress plugins directory. This is usually common amongst developers who still want to use their programming and coding skills. There are also many reasons why you may intend to write your own plugin which may include:

SECURITY: It is common amongst developed and established companies to write their own plugins to ensure that all wordpress security features and techniques are well implemented

EXTENDING: Usually, a downloaded plugin may be doing exactly what you want with just a slight exception, with this knowledge, you would be able to edit and add extra functions to an already existing wordpress plugin.

INCOME: To generate income by selling your plugins to wordpress users, Wordpress powers about 20% of the internet and thats a huge market for you to sell your products


Desire to be original etc

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However, you will have to know a little about wordpress framework to be able to develop wordpress plugins, in this tutorial, we covered everything neccessary to kick start your wordpress plugin development. The tutorial is intended for those who have used wordpress cms and also have an experience with php (See my beginners guide to starting php) with a little html and css. In the tutorial, we developed a simple plugin which we used to facilitate the learning process.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE TUTORIAL

WORDPRESS PLUGIN HEADERS: items to be inserted to the plugin file that validates your plugin and gives it a professional look. So that wordpress doesn't deactivate it.

Licensing your wordpress plugins: If you intend to deliver your plugin for public use, then this license is not an option.
Acessing files in your wordpress plugin: How do you get the url path and file path for including and accessing directories within your plugin? Including url functions to increase flexibility and re-usability of your program

PLUGIN SECURITY: Techniques on how to secure your wordpress plugin, sanitizing data before inserting them into the database, blocking hacking attempts and ensuring the safety of the entire wordpress installations

Hooking into wordpress using action and filters: To extend wordpress functions, you must know your actions and filters, filters control data output whereas action hooks after certain events (example after making  a post). This is the most important aspect and we considered a good number of commonly used wordpress filter and action hooks

Adding Plugin Options: To enable your users easily customize the output of your plugins without editing the source code.


Adding your plugin to admin menu: This tutorial shows you how to add your plugin to the admin menu bar, either as a top menu or as a sub-menu to an already existing menu, You will also learn how to position your plugin menu (say after the dashboard link)


Adding shortcodes and widgets to your plugins: This is also a very important part of the tutorial. Shortcodes when inserted into your wordpress page/post, outputs the result of a function defined in your plugin. As you would discover in the tutorial, it is easy and efficient.


At the end of the tutorial, you will be fully ready to start developing your own wordpress plugin,
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