As one of the most popular open source content management systems available
today, WordPress boasts a framework that allows you to easily customize and
extend it through plugins. This comprehensive book shows you how plugins
work, reviews the tools and APIs available in WordPress, and demonstrates
how to extend the functionality of WordPress with plugins.

The trio of established authors provides a practical, solutions-based
approach along with a collection of timely examples and plenty of code,
all aimed at clearly explaining how to create a plugin file, work with users,
integrate widgets, add menus and submenus, secure your plugins, and more.
You will quickly come to understand how to develop custom plugins so that
you can take WordPress to the next corporate and enterprise level.

Professional WordPress Plugin Development:
Details the range of complexity in plugins, from a very simple plugin to
an extremely elaborate social network package
Addresses how to integrate into WordPress, save settings, create widgets
and shortcodes, and implement uninstall
Learn the proper techniques for storing data, customizing user roles, and
security best practices
Shares techniques for using custom post types and creating and using custom
taxonomies
How to create plugins for WordPress Multisite networks
Integrate user and role management
Explores the HTTP API, JavaScript and AJAX, Cron, the Rewrite API, and more

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