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Developing a Wordpress Plugin

By corbyboy ⋅ December 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Developing a Wordpress plugin is something I have never thought about doing. The other day I was posting on a blog and thought how great it would be if posting would trigger a tweet on Twitter. I looked through all of the available plugins that claimed to do this and there was something wrong with all of them. So I decided to create my own.

I have never really looked at the source code of Wordpress before, but building a plugin is remarkebly easy. If you are unfamiliar with it, all you do is write your functions in your plugin file and tell Wordpress to execute them when certain Wordpress functions are triggered. For example, you can write a function that is executed when a post is made. You can then “hook” it into Wordpress to be executed at the correct time. You don’t even need to look at the source code either, as all the functions that you can hook into are documented on the Wordpress website.

I am currently still developing my plugin, Wordpress Twitterbot, but if you want to help me test it then just post a comment here and I will send you a copy.

I will let you know how I get on with the development and when it is ready for release.

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