[Expired] WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide – FREE BOOK

June 23, 2009 40 Comments
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Please note, this competition has expired, all winners have been notified. We will update soon.
We have another great giveaway, for one lucky reader. We have a free book called WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide by Vladimir Prelovac, WordPress expert and developer of WordPress plug-ins such as Smart YouTube and Plugin Central, view all his plugins here.

About the Book WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide

Free BookIf you can write WordPress plug-ins, you can make WordPress do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to adding the odd tweak or new feature, to completely changing the way your blog works, plug-ins are the method WordPress offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of WordPress plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Widgets, plug-ins that alter your post output, present custom “views” of your blog, and more.

WordPress Plug-in Development (Beginner’s Guide) focuses on teaching you all aspects of modern WordPress development. The book uses real and published WordPress plug-ins and follows their creation from the idea to the finishing touches, in a series of carefully picked, easy-to-follow tutorials. You will discover how to use the WordPress API in all typical situations, from displaying output on the site in the beginning to turning WordPress into a CMS in the last chapter. In Chapters 2 to 7 you will develop six concrete plug-ins and conquer all aspects of WordPress development.

Each new chapter and each new plug-in introduces different features of WordPress and how to put them to good use, allowing you to gradually advance your knowledge. This book is written as a guide to take your WordPress skills from the very beginning to the level where you are able to completely understand how WordPress works and how you can use it to your advantage.
WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide.

How to win this book

To win this, all you have to do is write a comment below about what type of plugin you would develop serious or with a little bit of humour, its up to you. From this we will select the winner, and have the book sent to you as soon as possible. Good luck!

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Comments and Reactions

  • http://andywidodo Andy Widodo

    As most of the people use wordpress as a blog tool..I would like to develop a plugin which could act like a lifestream, and incorporationg all of our social networks activities..sounds too general but the main aim is to take blog as the main identity of a person for his online presence.

  • http://andywidodo.com Andy Widodo

    As most of the people use wordpress as a blog tool..I would like to develop a plugin which could act like a lifestream, and incorporationg all of our social networks activities..sounds too general but the main aim is to take blog as the main identity of a person for his online presence.

    *sorry forgot to include proper URL

  • http://www.bigthink.it Ghido

    Hi. I would develop an “April fool plugin”: that is a plugin which you install on your friend’s WordPress and it edits the admin panel, so that it shows him “0 posts” in the dashboard.
    Moreover, it hides the post list, in order to pretend that all the posts were deleted.
    I think your friend will get mad!

  • http://feedit.iblogger.org/ hadi060

    Thanks for this great giveawy..
    I always hope to be able to make plugin.. If this ebook can help me so I’m waiting ^_^

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  • http://joshuawagneronline.com/ Josh Wagner

    If I were to win the book, I’d develop a customizable pagination plug in and plug ins for using WordPress as a photo gallery.

  • http://www.cnet.ro Radu

    Well, I already wrote some plugins and I would be happy to learn how to write more and better plugins. I am especially interested in writing plugins which use different APIs (from Google and other webservices).

  • http://diggerdesignlabs.com Steve Robillard

    I would like to build a plugin that utilizes the Google app Engine based URL shrinking service I just built.

  • http://webmuch.com Aayush

    Two plugins I wanna develop from the top of my mind are:

    1: A voting system on posts with user authentication. Where signed up users can vote a post up and down, the count of which will be displayed right with the post.

    2: A News Feed Plugin with which users can submit their website post-links with titles, descriptions and an image. This plugin will be able to communicate with the above plugin and bring the voting features to the news feed as-well.

  • http://www.hkablog.com Steve

    I would love to write a semantic plugin that suggests links, pictures, tags, etc. based on the type of story that you are writing. This would help “flesh” out your post.

  • http://webmuch.com Aayush

    Plus, I was the first one to post a comment here…Take the hint…wink wink…

  • http://www.wpfav.gr Basilakis

    What i whould like to develop whould be a Hotel Reservation system for Hotel Booking Web sites.

    It whould be a free plugin :)

  • http://NA daredanger

    I will make a plugin to add the job site functionality to wordpress.

  • http://thoughtcramps.com WhisperT

    I am currently working on a non-profit website and trying to compile plugins that would be especially helpful to the org to centralize their info. Many of what I am looking for is not available so I have decided to just try to make them myself. Without telling too much I’m trying to create something that makes a database of all their animal check-in and adoptions and then lets them tie all that information into the different WP features (media, post data, meta, authors, links…) Quite massive I know but I’m hoping it will be well worth the time spent and helpful to many other orgs.

  • Sternz

    I would make a plug-in that could fix my air conditioner at my house…It is freakin’ hot.

  • http://www.alikamran.ca Ali Kamran

    I already wrote a plugin and I would like to learn how to write more.
    I would like to write plugins to use different APIs from Google.
    thanks,

  • http://www.nanoutitude.org Nanane

    I won’t develop a plugin until i get this book for free :p
    Or maybe i’ll try to develop one which can link a new post directly into a social network (like a “share on facebook” or “tweet” category) without having to write the post, publish it, share it on facebook, share it on tweeter…

  • Matt

    I’d write a plugin to provide more in-depth accessibility features for my site such as colour schemes, alternative navigation etc. WordPress is good, but you can never go too far.

  • http://www.oscarantolinez.com Oscar Antolinez

    I need development calendar and agenda pluggin

  • Gavin Steele

    I would love to have a plugin that displayed a random image (something funny) and a name from one of the most recent commenters. Just to play with people reading my site.

    One day you could be Darth and the next you could be Miss Piggy.

    Anyway I would love to learn how to create plugins, so the book would be much appreciated.

  • Milin Paul

    I want to develop a plugin for coordinating event registration and ticketing feature…. I think this book will help me to develop my dream plugin for the wordpress community…

  • http://www.nxnweb.com Josh

    I’ve always wanted to build a plug-in that would enhance readability for long posts akin to…Readability

  • Akam

    I would like to write a plugin that suggests pictures based on the type of things that you are writing.
    thanks

  • http://wahyuy.isGreat.org why.itgo.com

    maybe if it eazy to read it would fit with me :)
    coz i’m not that so familiar with programming .
    my dream is still in my head .
    i want to make a site for , community , alumni and commerce .

  • chris Outlaw

    i would develop a plugin to automate blog writing so all you need to do is type in the title and the rest including links to relevant posts will be generated.

    Actually scrap that i like writing posts !!!!

    i would create lots of plugins and really enjoy every minute. please can i win thanks very much .

  • Crackpot

    The Compelling Content plugin — creates the compelling content that everyone who starts a blog believes they can provide but discovers (usually after the second or third entry) they can’t.

  • http://www.helloyi.cn hiyco

    As most of the people use wordpress as a blog tool..I would like to develop a plugin which could act like a lifestream, and incorporationg all of our social networks activities..sounds too general but the main aim is to take blog as the main identity of a person for his online presence.

  • http://www.robertlanedesign.com Robert Lane

    I am currently working on a website for my brother-in-law and his wife. They are missionaries to Brazil. Neither of us are very computer savvy. I would use this book to develop a plugin that he could use from the back-end of WP to update their status while on deputation or while on the field.

  • http://www,alephnaught.com/Blog/ Robert Hays

    I’d like to write a plugin that would create a graphic sitemap page.

    Thanks! – Bob

  • http://www.bluecar.com bluecar

    i want to make different image gallery library

  • http://thelightroomlab.com Scott Rouse

    I’d like to try to create a plugin that works in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Web Galleries. I want to make it very easy for photographers to create full websites with blogs, static pages, and image galleries using only Lightoom and WordPress.

  • Helen Seli

    I’d like to write a wordpress footer plugin as beauty as Speckyboy.com:)

  • Jack F

    My plugin would automatically submit your post to all the major bookmarking sites.

    Hope I win!

  • Luigi Barbati

    i’d like to write a plugin that automatically makes me win books by writing plugins for wordpress… :D

    i’m joking! what i have in mind is a way to improve chat by the implementation of a drawing feature, with the possibility of drawing basic vector shapes.

    it’s almost impossible, but it’s the only way to play tic tac toe or hangman in real time!!!

    i’ll win!

    bye!

  • http://bonezdesign.net Patrice Poliquin

    With a cool plugins book like this. I would use a bit of creativity. For exemple. I could make a blog where people are bring to make constructive comments on article (what ever it can be) and then for each comment left they would recive a cookie. This cookie would be like a reward for there good comments! I could set up a litle monster to feed with these cookies. So my blog could be a constructive place and a playground at the same time! Hope you liked the idea :)

  • http://bonezdesign.net Patrice Poliquin

    My comment haven’t been accepted or what?! I had the best idea ever!

  • http://www.digih5.com digi

    With a cool plugins book like this. I would use a bit of creativity. For exemple. I could make a blog where people are bring to make constructive comments on article (what ever it can be) and then for each comment left they would recive a cookie. This cookie would be like a reward for there good comments! I could set up a litle monster to feed with these cookies. So my blog could be a constructive place and a playground at the same time! Hope you liked the idea :)

  • http://www.vnmingle.com VaskarG

    I am beginner in word press. I want to develop plug in with the help of this book.

  • http://skarpminds.com ashish

    hi i would develop a plugin which would automatically detect finger print of the user for login.

  • umair asghar

    i need this book