Writing a plugin for WordPress, it isn’t that hard. The hardest part is coming up with a idea for a plugin that hasn’t been written already. But once you have a idea, that hasn’t been worked out already, the real fun starts.

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Like many programming or scripting jobs, the creation of a WordPress plugin is all about trial-and-error. You have to try it, to be able to learn how to write a plugin for WordPress. In this tutorial, I’m going to take you trough the basics of writing your very first WordPress plugin.

The plugin that we’re going to create, is going to put an end to the most commonly made spell fault in the world of WordPress. WordPress is spelled like two words, you have Word and you have Press. By putting these two words together, you have the name of the blogging software; WordPress. Read more »