building your first wordpress plugin
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Building your first
WordPress plugin
Justin Foell
Developer at 9seeds
@justinfoell
I found some sweet code,
where does it go?
Let's look at an example: admin bar
Pitfalls of adding it to functions.php
When should code go in a theme's functions.php?
One question:Would you still want the feature if the theme was changed?
If YES, put it in a plugin
If NO, you can put it in functions.php, but consider renaming the theme or creating a child theme to avoid upgrade issues
Holy crap! Plugins sound hard!
Writing a Plugin Documentation
Let's start with the bare minimum
Who knows how to type?
You can build a plugin!
myplugin.php