I have been reading my WordPress Plugin Development book and was lost from chapter 3 on. It seems many of these development books are chock full of knowledge but much of it is VERY specific or goes from 0-100 and leaves you in the dust.
The book did get me interested in trying to create a plugin though. I was going to do a screencast on implementing the Expanding Code Box from Digging Into WordPress, and I always start by going through the process to make sure I can do it and to iron out any kinks before screencasting. During the process, I thought this would make the perfect subject for creating my first WordPress plugin. So, in the next few posts I will create a WP plugin that creates a cool sliding box for your code.
I use code from Digging Into WordPress and barrow a great deal of code from Justin Tadlock’s Cleaner Gallery plugin. I used cleaner gallery because I know that Justin Tadlock likes to write plugins and themes using very robust and efficient code, and I trust his code to be some of the best that I can find.
This is the first screencast I have created without a test run, this my actual creation of the plugin filmed, err… screened.
The following screencast shows where I received inspiration and how I went about setting it up.
This next screencast begins the process of creating the necessary CSS and JS files and linking them correctly with our plugin PHP file.
The next post will cover the content of the new files we have created, and we’ll solve that fatal error.
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