One of the beautiful things about WordPress is the high level of flexibility and input you as a designer can have, you can theme it yourself, hack it up and even create your own plugins.

Today we are covering a few tutorials which will help you create your first WordPress plugin. As you may know the WordPress community is a thriving one with users sharing a great deal, so why would you need to create your own plugins?

You may need to create one custom for your own or your clients needs, or you might just want to give back to the WordPress community. The tutorials below are great to follow and as long as you have some knowledge of WordPress and PHP you should get on fine.

Anatomy of a WordPress Plugin

WordPress Plugin Tutorial – Hello World

How to write a WordPress Plugin?

Releasing and Promoting Your WordPress Plugin

WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin

Create a Custom WordPress Plugin From Scratch

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