WordPress Plugin API – Loading Plugins

WordPress auto discovers the main plugin file for each plugin and then loads it. How does it do this? How does it know which file is the main one in your plugin directory? In this Pro Lab, you’ll go into WordPress Core, walk through the code, and then reverse engineer it. This lab will help you to know how your plugin files are being read, discovered, and loaded.

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Let’s Build the Collapsible Content Plugin – Part 1

Let's get you started building custom (from scratch) WordPress plugins. In Part 1 of this series, you are going to build the basics of the Collapsible Content plugin. As you are building it with Tonya, you'll learn deeply about custom plugin development, file structures, jQuery, PHP, WordPress core, shortcodes, Gulp, and much more.

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