Core & APIs: A Workshop on WordPress Plugins

If there’s one cardinal rule in WordPress development, it’s this: Don’t touch WordPress core.

The Topic

WordPress is kind of a paradox.

Its core files are sloppy but it succeed to became highly extensible. Themes and plugins development made the CMS what it is today, WordPress owes most of its hegemony to its users.

Mastering skills enabling us to play with this flexibility meaning the best WordPress argument is not insignificant.

The workshop's goals

• Make you understand key concepts when it comes to plugin development
• Give you some discernment in regards to the CMS files & folder structure

What you'll be able to do by the end of the course

• Modify content and reshaping WordPress behviour both on admin and client sides
• Making your features modulable on admin panel

The plan

• Installation
• Context
• Hooks
• Shortcodes
• Boilerplate