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Old 01-14-2008, 03:34 AM
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Have any of you tried creating a WordPress plugin before? I created my first (rather crude) plugin tonight and was quite surprised how easy the whole process was ... my first plugin

Do any of you have any tips for a newbie plugin developer? I have next to zero skills at programming, but I seem to be able to hack at programs to make them do roughly what I want them to do.
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I've never tried it to be honest - never had an idea good enough to warrant turning into a plugin! Or if I have then somones already done it twice as well as I ever could!
Off topic: Don't be so hard on your programming skills - you may not know a language, or be able to write something massive from scratch, but clearly you have the logical skill of a programmer - this is the most important bit! If you have the logic then you can sit down and learn any language you like, it just happens that you haven't done it yet!

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Old 01-19-2008, 09:17 PM
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... - never had an idea good enough to warrant turning into a plugin! Or if I have then somones already done it twice as well as I ever could!
That's what I thought, but when I saw an abomination of a plugin and there were people commenting on how wonderful it was, I realised there was an 'unplugged' niche!

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If you have the logic then you can sit down and learn any language you like, it just happens that you haven't done it yet!
Unfortunately time is not something I have a lot of. I seem to be picking up bits and pieces though and I've got a vague idea of how PHP and Javascript syntax work now which is helping a lot.
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