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WordPress Plugin Development

Building secure, maintainable WordPress plugins: plugin structure and lifecycle; the hooks system; custom post types, taxonomies and metadata; settings pages; shortcodes and blocks; the REST API; security (capabilities, nonces, sanitising and escaping, $wpdb); custom tables and scheduled tasks; translation, testing and distribution; and a room-booking plugin project.

  • IntermediateBest if you know the basics
  • 30 hTotal content time
  • 18 lessonsOrdered from basics to practice
  • In ArabicWith technical terms in English

About this course

Building secure, maintainable WordPress plugins: plugin structure and lifecycle; the hooks system; custom post types, taxonomies and metadata; settings pages; shortcodes and blocks; the REST API; security (capabilities, nonces, sanitising and escaping, $wpdb); custom tables and scheduled tasks; translation, testing and distribution; and a room-booking plugin project.

Academy-authored content.

Course highlights

  • Structure a plugin and manage its lifecycle (activation, deactivation, uninstall)
  • Extend WordPress with actions and filters
  • Model content with custom post types, taxonomies, metadata and settings
  • Build user interfaces with shortcodes, blocks and REST endpoints
  • Secure plugins with capabilities, nonces, sanitising, escaping and safe database access
  • Schedule tasks, translate, test and distribute plugins

The practical result

What you’ll build in this course

Building secure, maintainable WordPress plugins: plugin structure and lifecycle; the hooks system; custom post types, taxonomies and metadata; settings pages; shortcodes and blocks; the REST API; security (capabilities, nonces, sanitising and escaping, $wpdb); custom tables and scheduled tasks; translation, testing and distribution; and a room-booking plugin project.

Final lesson: Lesson 6.3

Is this course for you?

Who it’s for

  • PHP developers extending WordPress

Requirements

  • CRS-GEN-PHP

Course content

  • 8units
  • 18sessions
  • 7quizzes
Unit 13 sessions
  1. Lesson 1.1
  2. Lesson 1.2
  3. Lesson 1.3
Unit 23 sessions
  1. Lesson 2.1
  2. Lesson 2.2
  3. Lesson 2.3
Unit 33 sessions
  1. Lesson 3.1
  2. Lesson 3.2
  3. Lesson 3.3
Unit 43 sessions
  1. Lesson 4.1
  2. Lesson 4.2
  3. Lesson 4.3
Unit 53 sessions
  1. Lesson 5.1
  2. Lesson 5.2
  3. Lesson 5.3
Unit 63 sessions
  1. Lesson 6.1
  2. Lesson 6.2
  3. Lesson 6.3
Quizzes0 sessions · 7 quizzes
  1. Quiz 1
  2. Quiz 2
  3. Quiz 3
  4. Quiz 4
  5. Quiz 5
  6. Quiz 6
  7. Final exam
Projects and assignments0 sessions
  1. Assignment 1
  2. Assignment 2
  3. Assignment 3

The lecturer

Lecturer

Eng. Abdelmaksoud

Your next step

This course is part of the trackProgrammingFrom your first line of code to a project you build yourself.30 courses

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