Ultimate WordPress Plugin Course

In this lesson we find answer the question, 'WordPress plugin anyway?'

In this lesson we look at what a 'WordPress Hook' is and why it's absolutely integral to WordPress Plugin Development.

In this lesson we look at common actions and filters used when developing WordPress plugins.

It's been said before, failing to plan is planning to fail… So in this lesson we're going to plan the plugin we'll be creating in this course.

It's time to make our Plugin do some work! In this lesson we learn about Shortcodes and then we make our own to display our email capture form.

In this lesson we learn how to create custom post types without writing a single line of code using the Custom Post Types UI plugin.

In this lesson we learn how to make custom fields without writing any code using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

In this three-part lecture we'll learn how to add custom fields from scratch using the best practices outlined in the WordPress Codex.

In this three-part lecture we'll learn how to add custom fields from scratch using the best practices outlined in the WordPress Codex.

In this three-part lecture we'll learn how to add custom fields from scratch using the best practices outlined in the WordPress Codex.

In this lesson we learn what admin columns are and then we add a few of our own.

In this lesson we make our email capture form work by writing custom functions for adding new subscribers.

In this lesson we continue writing functions for handling email capture form submissions.

In this lesson we continue writing functions for handling email capture form submissions.

In this lesson we continue writing functions for handling email capture form submissions.

In this lesson we add some form validation and error handling for our new add subscription action.

In this lesson we make our email capture form more user friendly by writing custom javascript that handles our form posts and responses.

In this lesson we make our email capture form look good by writing custom CSS and including enqueueing it in the header.

In this lesson we learn how to include the Advanced Custom Fields plugin within our plugin directory so we can take advantage of ACF's awesome features wherever our plugin goes.

In this lesson we learn how to include our custom post types in our plugin so we can relinguish our dependance on the Custom Post Types UI plugin.

In this lesson we're going to learn about WordPress admin pages and how to create our own.

In this lesson we're going to learn about Admin Menus and we're going to add three admin menus for the Admin Pages we just created in our previous lesson.

In this lesson we're going to update our plugin options page with a form for managing default plugin options.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to save plugin options.

In this lesson we're going to create an unsubscribe feature so if our email list sucks people have a way to opt out of it.

In this lesson we learn how to send automated emails through WordPress's built-in wp_mail function.

In this lesson we're going to update our subscription process to require new subscribers to opt-in through a unique opt-in link we generate and include in their initial subscription email.

In this lesson we're going to create a new automated email that get's sent out once a subscriber has confirmed their subscription.

In this lesson we're going to use the Advanced Custom Fields plugin again to create new custom fields for adding optional reward files to our email lists.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to add a custom database table to the WordPress database.

In this lesson we're going to create unique reward links that we will then email to new subscribers when they opt-in to an email list.

In this lesson we're going learn how to expire our reward links after "x" number of downloads, "x" being equal to the user defined "Reward Download Limit" we set up in our plugin options page.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to export our subscriber data as a CSV file. The great thing about this file is it can be used to import our subscribers into other email platforms like MailChimp.

In this lesson we're going to update our Subscribers list page to include a new "Subscriptions" column. In this column we're going to display the number of active subscribers a list has a we're going to add a new link for exporting those subscribers.

In this lesson we're going to complete our custom admin page called "Import Subscribers". This page will eventually include a dynamic import process that allows users to upload a CSV file and then select which data they wish to import as well as which list they wish to import to.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to read a CSV file in PHP and convert the results to a PHP array that we can later user to import new subscriber data.

In this lesson we're going to complete our import feature and learn how to programatically insert new subscribers into the database.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to check the current WordPress version on plugin activation. If the version isn't one we've tested we're going to display an admin message on the plugins page.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to cover our tracks when a plugin is uninstalled. Leave no 1 behind! …or 0, don't leave those either.

In this lesson we're going to make some last minute updates to our plugin to fix some small things before we consider releasing her into the wild.

In this lesson we're going to package our plugin in preparation for submitting to the WordPress plugin directory.

In this lesson we're going to look at a couple of easy ways to host our plugin.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to submit our plugin to the WordPress directory.

In this lesson we're going to learn how to manage our plugin updates with Subversion.

In this lesson we're going to look at a couple of easy ways to sell your plugins online.