Create a WordPress Plugin from Scratch - Part 1

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[abdul_qadir]

I have complete your theme development, and guess what? now I have started my freelancing career. A big thank you from my heart...

[stevendovey]

Alessandro, I'm a full time front end developer and beginner PHP developer, I've just watched your Wordpress 101 playlist and in the space of a few hours I have my custom theme running and looking great. You're a great tutor and I'm happy to support you especially as I'm developing my theme for a client. I think if any of us developers are making money from Alessandro's tutorials we should all donate something. Really looking forward to this plugin series, keep up the great work.

[fkangalov]

I came back many years later to check the tutorials again, I literally landed a few jobs only because of this WordPress Plugin series. Best WordPress dev tutorials ever!

[hajjejmohamed]

i followed your tutorials since the beginning and i get excited every time i get a notification from your channel.
Totally one of the best WP tutorials in the internet, it's too good to be free :p
Thank you master Alessandro

[Nonsense]

I love the tutorial. Your voice reminds me of Gru from Despicable Me which makes the tutorial even more awesome.

[alcantaraallan]

I must agree, everytime I get to see a notification from alecaddd I'm getting excited to see whats in store for us. very helpful in my learning path in WordPress. Thank you Alessandro, keep it up!

[maljuburi]

Alex bro . You are doing great. You are the only developer who dig really deep into Wordpress on YouTube. Keep it up 👍

[danicoolpak]

I think you are great and i am following since start as well. I am really thankful to you as the new series are not 20 or 30 mins based tuts. That is just awesome.

[ThomasOGradyPhD]

Beautifully done! Looking forward to implementing something that I've wanted to do for a year, but too busy previously.

[sandro]

Part 1: Setting up folder and core files

[weerakoons]

You are a very good teacher. Very clear Voice, and smooth flow.. Thanks lot for videos..

[marcocipriano]

credo sia la prima volta in vita mia che guardo un video di un italiano che parla in inglese e non mi accorgo che non è madrelingua, sono commosso.

[indigoict]

Cheers, Aless - what a great tutorial - was just the right length and content for an intro and your chilled out tone and delivery of the material overall was just spot on. Subscribed and hooked on the series. Thanks again, kudos.

[yasirtahirkheli]

Simply i never liked wordpress but its your way of instruction and deep knowledge undoubtedly, driving me to learn wordpress plugin development...thanks for such a great start...long live...

[yanike]

A.C. excellent series start up video! There's nothing wrong with your voice. I care about the knowledge you share and how it grows my skillset.

[martinkaspar]

I love how you talk through every step and explain all! This is great: Well that said i think: the global Wordpress-Community is LITERALLY a learing community.
So plz help in educating the world. can you come up with a vid that covers the Version 6.1 - this would support the global community We need you!🙏😊👍🏻😳♥

[dhidhi]

I've found (through some experience) that 'messing up' very small things in the plugin structure can have TERRIBLE effects on the output of the website (a.k.a. weird bugs). For instance:

1. I made a plugin following this same folder and file names, as well as this comment block with the plugin meta information, etc. Everything worked fine locally, but after uploading to the remote host, the backend pages (wp admin pages) were completally blank!! I was so frustrated, and later found that the problem was that there were some NEW LINES between the <?php opening tag and the rest of the file. Apparently, you cannot put new lines after <?php.

2. My website wouldn't show the wp-admin bar on frontend when logged in. I went to backend and disabled and enabled the option to show it, so it would reset the configuration. On the frontend, it was fixed, however it looked like my theme had been disabled. So weird.

I was so fed up that I decided to read in depth about plugin creation for wp, so I opened this video. I just put the other comment block with the @package tag in the plugin (exactly as you did) and now it works fine. Holy molly, this made so upset.

[mohdhasanchishti]

Alessandro Castellani you're too awesome bro. i am excited to follow this series.

[MatTeague]

I'm so excited for this series! Thanks you for the videos and keep up the good work!!

[zulfikarbandhan]

WooooW. I was eagerly waiting for this awesome series. Thank you so much.