Creating and Selling Wordpress Plugins
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Creating and Selling Wordpress Plugins

About the Book

The first part of Creating and Selling Wordpress Plugins will walk professional and hobbyist programmers alike through all the major components of building a custom plugin.

Readers will learn how to correctly structure a plugin and how to create professional administration menus. Using detailed explanations, readers will get the hang of using Javascript and Ajax correctly in Wordpress. As the guide progresses programmers will also learn how to create custom shortcodes as well as how to access the database with the plugin.

Provided throughout are complete code examples showing exactly how to implement every feature discussed and these examples can be easily extended to add your own unique features.

Once readers have an understanding of how to create their own plugins the second part of the book discusses how to sell those plugins online to make a healthy income.

Starting out with methods for coming up with solid and profitable ideas, the book then moves onto how to make your plugins stand out from the crowd. There is detailed information on the various methods of selling plugins including using marketplaces, landing pages and social media.

The goal of Creating and Selling Wordpress Plugins is to act as a primer for those new to the world of creating for Wordpress and selling software online. It is aimed at those who have at least some basic technical knowledge, though even complete beginners can benefit from the book if willing to supplement with other beginner books on web programming.

About the Author

Jamie Osborne
Jamie Osborne

Jamie Osborne is a software industry veteran with over 12 years' professional experience in a wide variety of roles. He is also a successful entrepreneur and founder of several diverse businesses.

A British ex-pat now living in America, he enjoys the challenge of writing and teaching others. Jamie regularly creates software for mammothology.com and can be found blogging occasionally at jamieos.com

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Pre-requisites & Assumptions
    • Sample Code
  • Setting Up
  • Plugin Structure
  • Creating the main plugin file
  • Creating the administrator menus
    • Simple Menu
    • Top-Level Menu
    • Summary
  • Database
  • Shortcodes
  • Styling
  • Code Complete
  • Plugin Ideas
  • Before Selling
  • Marketplaces
    • Getting started
    • Stand out from the crowd
    • Downsides to marketplaces
  • Plugin Website
    • Getting Started
    • Essentials
    • Selling from your website
  • Social Selling
    • Deals
    • Facebook and Twitter
    • Mailing list
    • Guest posts
  • Putting It All Together
  • Where to find more information

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