develop basic plugin to help get me started WordPress

Francisco Javier Carazo Gil answers:

<blockquote></blockquote>Well, I'll try to explain you all as brief as I can.

First, you'll need to create a file called: "myplugin.php" in /wp-content/plugins or a directory and a file inside it.

<strong>Header</strong>
In header of this file you will specify the general data of your plugin:


<?php
/*
Plugin Name:
Plugin URI:
Description:
Version:
Author:
Author URI:
License:
*/
?>


<strong>Post meta</strong>
To interact with post_meta you have this functions:
<em>add_post_meta()
delete_post_meta()
update_post_meta()
get_post_meta()</em>

You can see parameters in: [[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/"]]http://codex.wordpress.org/[[/LINK]]

<strong>Widget</strong>
You'll need to create a function:

function widget_creator($args) {
extract($args);
echo $before_widget;
echo $before_title;?>Your widget ttile<?php echo $after_title;
// fill widget info
echo $after_widget;
}

<strong>Administration</strong>
[[LINK href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus"]]This part is long to explain. I recomend you to read this refer: http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus
[[/LINK]]
I hope it helps!

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