Tag: wordpress plugin
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WordPress Plugin Development for Beginners: How a Plugin Actually Works
A follow-along guide that builds a working WordPress plugin from an empty folder. Learn where plugins live, how WordPress loads and runs them, the hooks system, and every term WordPress developers use. Then graduate to our advanced article, where a seasoned developer builds a real plugin.
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A Client-Side Image Resizer for WordPress: How a Seasoned Developer Builds a Plugin
WordPress kept rejecting our image uploads. The real server limit was 2 MB, but WordPress reported 32 MB. We built a plugin that reads the true limit and downsamples images in the browser before upload. This article shows how a seasoned developer builds a WordPress plugin, and the WP 6.8 internals we had to learn.