143 Admin Menus, Database interaction and Uninstall.php – ‘How to Write a WordPress Plugin’ Series

kingsolutions.org.uk Welcome to this tutorial series from King Solutions on “How to Write a WordPress Plugin”. In this series we’ll take a look at exactly what it takes to build plugins for WordPress. In this lesson we will be taking what we have learned so far about admin menus, combining this knowledge with our Text to Hyperlink lesson, saving the user data in the WordPress database, retrieving that data, parsing page contents for a keyword and changing that keyword to a hyperlink. In the last few years the powerful open source WordPress software has become very popular, not just for basic blogs but for full blown web environments. This has been made possible to a large part by the extensibility provided by the WordPress Plugin API interface.