Plugin development
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This document discusses plugin development in WordPress. It explains that plugins should be used for custom functionality rather than themes to avoid losing data when changing themes. It provides resources for a custom plugin project on GitHub and covers topics like activation hooks, deactivation hooks, using hooks, adding shortcodes, and including styles in a plugin. Contact information is provided for questions.
Plugin development
- 2. CUSTOM FUNCTIONALITY PLUGIN VS THEME Plugins should be used when adding custom functionality to a WordPress site. If you add a post type in a theme but switch themes later you “lose” that data. Plugins can stay with the site regardless of theme.
- 3. OUR RESOURCES We’ll be building the custom plugin available here: https://github.com/yingles/stl-meetup-plugin
- 8. PLUGIN DEVELOPMENT SHORTCODE Next we’ll add a shortcode that pulls data from another site using the WordPress REST API