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Contents

1 Introduction 2 Theme Development 3 Plugin Development 4 Contributing to WordPress 5 Forums, Lists, and Blogs 6 Other Information of Interest 7 External Resources

Introduction

WordPress believes in keeping it simple, and a lot of thought goes into including new functionality as a part of the "core" WordPress code, in order to keep WordPress fast and lightweight. Still, users often find the need to graft additional functionality onto WordPress to meet their needs. This section of the Codex offers guidelines and references for anyone wishing to modify, extend, or contribute to WordPress.

You may also wish to consult the Developer Documentation FAQ

Programming Code Ahead

In the following articles you may encounter programming terms that are not explained in the usual level of detail required for understanding by non-programmers.

Although the alteration of the downloadable files for WordPress is limited to a few distinct programmers, every WordPress user has the ability to affect change in the core WordPress code, making WordPress highly customizable.


Theme Development

Theme Development - References and resources about designing and developing WordPress Themes Templates - References for WordPress Theme development WordPress Theme Directory - official showcase and hosting for wordpress themes WordPress Theme Viewer - Hosts WordPress Themes for download Template Tags - PHP functions created specifically for use in Themes Function Reference - Complete PHP function reference for WordPress WordPress Deprecated Functions Hook - Information on deprecated functions hooks Migrating Plugins and Themes - Contains information on how to upgrade your Theme so it will work from version to version of WordPress WordPress Coding Standards - General information about coding standards for WordPress development and code writing Designing Themes for Public Release - Tips and techniques for designing WordPress Themes for release to the general public.

Plugin Development

Writing a Plugin - Best starting place for learning about how to develop plugins Plugin Resources - Comprehensive list of other references for plugin development Plugin API - Hooks, Actions, and Filters to use in your Plugins (version 2.1; has links to older version articles) Function Reference - Complete PHP function reference for WordPress (version 2.1, with links to previous versions) Migrating Plugins and Themes - Contains information on how to upgrade your Plugin so it will work from version to version of WordPress WordPress Coding Standards - General information about coding standards for WordPress development Plugin Submission and Promotion - Once you have written your plugin, here are some hints on distributing it widely Shortcode API - A tutorial and reference for the shortcode API (new in version 2.5)


Contributing to WordPress

Contributing to WordPress - Main starting point if you would like to contribute to core WordPress development, documentation, support, translations, or financial health Automated Testing - Testing WordPress using the automated test suite and how to use the tools and write test cases.

Forums, Lists, and Blogs

Mailing Lists - WordPress mailing lists for documentation and development IRC - WordPress IRC channels http://wordpress.org/support - WordPress Support Forums http://wordpress.org/development - WordPress Development Blog http://planet.wordpress.org - Aggregate of many blogs discussing WordPress (official) http://planetwordpress.planetozh.com/ - Another aggregate of many blogs discussing WordPress mostly plugins and themes (unofficial)


Other Information of Interest

Advanced Topics - Annotated list of many articles on advanced WordPress topics Query Overview - Description of the WordPress query process used to find posts and display them Reporting Bugs - Information on reporting and fixing WordPress bugs Using Subversion - Introduction to SVN, the source code repository used by WordPress


External Resources

WordPress Source Code

PHPXref for WordPress - Cross reference of WordPress files, functions, and variables, which seems to roughly track the latest released version of WordPress. This redalt.com PHPXref site had the bleeding-edge Trunk version, as well as 1.5 and 2.0, but the Trunk version may not be updating any more. So, there is now a new Trunk Xref site on ftwr.co.uk. You can also find a latest release (automatically updated from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip every week) Xref on http://lab.yukei.net/wp-code/. WordPress Function History Table - List of what version each WordPress function was added in; PlanetOzh recommends: "see related WordPress Functions Implementation History Tool for more information (and for a more usable tool)" WordPress Variable Report - A list of WordPress functions, listing what version of PHP every function requires (and if there's a compatible function available), what varables/arguments in functions are unused, and what functions/variables each class contains (and their default values). WordPress Development Search (Google CSE)

Other Resources

PHP Manual MySQL Manual Subversion Home Page

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