WordPress plugin development links

While developing Basic-SEO I’ve found the following sites very useful for reference purposes:

WordPress Plugin Repository – http://wp-plugins.org

You can’t beat learning by example, here you can browse the source code of all the plugins WordPress.org hosts.

WordPress PHP Documentation – http://phpdoc.wordpress.org/

All the comments from the WordPress source code extracted in HTML format and correctly linked, very useful for looking up functions.

WordPress Hooks Database – http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks

Database of all the action & filter hooks that have ever been available in any WordPress release and where it occurs in the source code.

WordPress Codex – http://codex.wordpress.org/

The official documentation for WordPress, has a very useful developer documentation section.

WordPress plugin: Basic-SEO

It’s time to unveil my first WordPress plugin: Basic-SEO. It’s a very, very simple plugin really, it applies a pre-defined set of search engine optimisations to your active theme. It has no configuration options at all at the moment it just achieves the goal I had in mind for it. I thought I’d release it as it is now in case anyone else finds it useful. I’ve already got a list of features I’d like to add to it but my next step is to get it listed on WordPress Plugins.

If you find the plugin useful or have an feedback then please let me know.

First WordPress plugin

As I’ve recently changed the theme I use in WordPress I’ve lost all the basic SEO tweaks I’d made. Rather than make the tweaks again to this theme I’ve decided to convert them into a simple WordPress plugin, should allow me to get my hands dirty with the inner workings of WordPress and plugins as well as save a bit of time in the long run. I’m also planning on documenting the development of the plugin here.

While Java is my preferred language of choice I’m sure it won’t hurt to stay involved in PHP.