Best Tutorials for creating your first WordPress Plugin

Created By ScottPhillips on 09/21/2008

So you want to write a WordPress plugin, but you're not sure where to start? Here are some of the best tutorials I could find. Please add any you recommend!

Structure of a Wordpress Plugin
One of the more important aspects of developing a WordPress plugin is how you structure it. This article will go over some tips on how to structure your plugin to organize your plugin resources and avoid naming collisions. Each plugin author is different in the way they structure a plugin, so these tips are merely based on personal preference. It also give a great overview of how a WordPress plugin works.
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How to Write a Wordpress Plugin
How to Write a Wordpress Plugin, written by Ronald Huereca is an extensive, twelve entry series on the process of creating your own Wordpress plugin. Every step is covered, from “Seven Steps for Writing a Wordpress Plugin” all the way down to adding ajax to your plugin and releasing it. This is an excellent article series for anyone interested in the process behind creating your very first Wordpress plugin. With code examples to help assist you, you will be on your way to future releases of your own plugins for the Wordpress community.
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WordPress Plugin Actions
WordPress actions allow you as a plugin author to be able to hook into the WordPress application and execute a piece of code. An example of an action would be that you want a execute some code after a user has published a post or left a comment.
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