Securing your wordpress plugin isn’t a difficult task or cumbersome because wordpress implements several tools to make your code safe and secure. We will exploore how to secure your plugins from internet pirates.
How to Secure WordPress Plugins
Working With WordPress wpdb Object
WordPress offers an object that can be used to access data form default tables and custom tables. The $wpdb object contains several methods to read, insert, delete and update records from tables. Let’s explore these methods in details.
Adding Menus and Submenus for WordPress Plugins
Integrating your plugin in wordpress is the first step in building plugins. There are many different ways to integrate your plugins including adding menus and submenus, adding metaboxes and adding widgets. Let’s explore how to add menus and submenus for wordpress plugins.
How To Create WordPress Widgets
WordPress provides a great API to create and interact with widgets. Widgets are a great way to allow plugin users to build their blog sidebar easily. I will show you how to create widgets, add widget options and display it in the sidebar.
PHP Errors Handling
PHP5 introduced exceptions, a completely different way to handle errors. Simply, exceptions like sensors detect any error occur within your code and output a bunch of data to handle these errors. Let’s see how these exceptions work.
Laravel URL Generation
In order to build hyperlinks in our applications. We might do this by hand but laravel provides a number of helpers to build URLs. Let’s explore them.
Adding Help Tabs In WordPress Plugins Pages
WordPress 3.3 introduces the ability to create custom help tabs in plugin pages. You can use these tabs for plugin documentation to allow users to quickly understand your plugin function. I will show you how to add a help tab to your plugin configuration page.