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Welcome to the seventh post in my series on building a WordPress plugin from scratch. This tutorial series requires no programming experience, but I do suggest you start from the first post in this series if you\u2019re a total newbie to WordPress development. Just a couple things to keep in mind about this series if you\u2019re just tuning in:<\/p>\n
Below is the source code for this tutorial. I\u2019ve provided this for example purposes but strongly encourage you to recode this yourself from scratch and to experiment with some minor modifications. You\u2019ll also notice that this plugin is slightly different than the one we\u2019ve been working on in this series.<\/p>\n
This plugin, which we\u2019ll be developing over the next several posts in this series, will allow you to add an affiliate promotion in your WordPress dashboard which and have it show up below every blog on your WordPress site:<\/p>\n
{code type=php}<\/p>\n
<?php<\/p>\n
\/*\/<\/p>\n
Plugin Name: SJC Affiliate Promotions<\/p>\n
Plugin URI: www.penetrationmedia.com<\/p>\n
Description: Simple plugin for adding and managing affiliate promotions on your WordPress posts.<\/p>\n
Version: 101<\/p>\n
Author: Seth Czerepak<\/p>\n
Author URI:\u00a0 www.sethczerepak.com<\/p>\n
\/*\/<\/p>\n
\/\/ check for existing class<\/p>\n
if(!class_exists(‘SJC_AffiliatePromos’)) {<\/p>\n
\/\/ create class<\/p>\n
class SJC_AffiliatePromos {<\/p>\n
\/\/create function for creating table in WP DB<\/p>\n
function SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable () {<\/p>\n
global $wpdb;<\/p>\n
\/\/define table name<\/p>\n
$table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘sjc_affiliate_promotions’;<\/p>\n
\/\/create code for constructing table<\/p>\n
$sql = “CREATE TABLE $table_name (<\/p>\n
id int(100) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,<\/p>\n
date_created datetime DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ NOT NULL,<\/p>\n
date_updated datetime DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ NOT NULL,<\/p>\n
promotion_name VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL,<\/p>\n
promotion_body text NOT NULL,<\/p>\n
promotion_link VARCHAR(200) DEFAULT ” NOT NULL,<\/p>\n
UNIQUE KEY id (id)<\/p>\n
);”;<\/p>\n
\/\/include WP files essential for creating your own tables<\/p>\n
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin\/includes\/upgrade.php’);<\/p>\n
dbDelta($sql);<\/p>\n
}<\/p>\n
\/\/function for adding dummy data to your new table<\/p>\n
function SJC_AffiliatePromos_DummyData() {<\/p>\n
global $wpdb;<\/p>\n
\/\/define table name<\/p>\n
$table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘sjc_affiliate_promotions’;<\/p>\n
\/\/set dummy data variables<\/p>\n
$promotion_name = ‘Newsletter Signup’;<\/p>\n
$promotion_body = ‘For more cool free information sign up for our newsletter. Just fill in the form on the upper right hand corner of this website!’;<\/p>\n
$rows_affected = $wpdb->insert($table_name, array(‘date_created’ => current_time(‘mysql’), ‘promotion_name’ => $promotion_name, ‘promotion_body’ => $promotion_body));<\/p>\n
}<\/p>\n
function ActivePromotion($full_content = ”) {<\/p>\n
global $wpdb;<\/p>\n
\/\/grab promotions data<\/p>\n
$promotion_data = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM wp_sjc_affiliate_promotions WHERE id = ‘1’”, ARRAY_A);<\/p>\n
\/\/prepare to display promotion in blog footer<\/p>\n
$affiliate_promotion = $promotion_data[‘promotion_body’];<\/p>\n
$full_content .= $affiliate_promotion;<\/p>\n
return $full_content;<\/p>\n
}<\/p>\n
\/\/create admin page<\/p>\n
function SJC_AffiliatePromos_AdminPage() {<\/p>\n
\/\/lock out unauthorized users<\/p>\n
if (!current_user_can(‘manage_options’)) {<\/p>\n
wp_die( __( ‘KEEP OUT! Authorized Personnel Only!’ ) );<\/p>\n
}\/\/end lock out<\/p>\n
\/\/spit out html for admin area<\/p>\n
echo ‘<div>’;<\/p>\n
echo ‘<h1>Welcome to Affiliate Promotions!<\/h1>’;<\/p>\n
echo ‘<p>This will be the command center for the Affiliate Promotions Plugin.<\/p>’;<\/p>\n
echo ‘<\/div>’;<\/p>\n
\/\/grab users information from the database<\/p>\n
global $wpdb;<\/p>\n
\/\/grab promotions data<\/p>\n
$promotion_data = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM wp_sjc_affiliate_promotions WHERE id = ‘1’”, ARRAY_A);<\/p>\n
echo ‘Active Affiliate Promotion:’;<\/p>\n
echo $promotion_data[‘promotion_name’];<\/p>\n
echo “<br \/>”;<\/p>\n
echo $promotion_data[‘promotion_body’];<\/p>\n
} \/\/end of html for admin page<\/p>\n
function SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler_PluginMenu() {<\/p>\n
add_options_page(‘SJC Affiliate Promotions’, ‘SJC Affiliate Promotions’, ‘manage_options’, ‘sjc-affiliate-promotions-admin’, array(&$this,SJC_AffiliatePromos_AdminPage));<\/p>\n
}\/\/end plugin menu<\/p>\n
} \/\/ close class<\/p>\n
} \/\/close check or existing class<\/p>\n
\/\/if the class exists, assign a handler to it<\/p>\n
if(class_exists(SJC_AffiliatePromos)){<\/p>\n
$SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler = new SJC_AffiliatePromos();<\/p>\n
\/\/run code to create table when plugin is activated<\/p>\n
register_activation_hook(__FILE__,array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable’));<\/p>\n
\/\/run code to populate table with dummy data when plugin is activated<\/p>\n
register_activation_hook(__FILE__,array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_DummyData’));<\/p>\n
\/\/tell your handler to build the plugin menu using WP action<\/p>\n
add_action(‘admin_menu’, array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler_PluginMenu’),1);<\/p>\n
\/\/add active promotion to your blog footers<\/p>\n
add_filter(‘the_content’, array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘ActivePromotion’));<\/p>\n
}\/\/close assignment of handler<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For the sake of instruction, I\u2019m going to break down the source code one section at a time. I\u2019ll be summarizing the coding techniques already discussed within this post series as well as explaining the sections of code which contain new techniques. Let\u2019s start with the first block of code, the plugin description:<\/p>\n
{code type=php}<\/p>\n
<?php<\/p>\n
\/*\/<\/p>\n
Plugin Name: SJC Affiliate Promotions<\/p>\n
Plugin URI: www.penetrationmedia.com<\/p>\n
Description: Simple plugin for adding and managing affiliate promotions on your WordPress posts.<\/p>\n
Version: 101<\/p>\n
Author: Seth Czerepak<\/p>\n
Author URI:\u00a0 www.sethczerepak.com<\/p>\n
\/*\/<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This code contains the plugin description, which we covered in detail in the first post of this series \u201cHow to Create Your Very First WordPress Plugin<\/a>.\u201d <\/strong>In the next section of code, we check to see if a class with our unique class name already exists. If it doesn\u2019t, we create the unique class for our plugin:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/ check for existing class<\/p>\n if(!class_exists(‘SJC_AffiliatePromos’)) {<\/p>\n \/\/ create class<\/p>\n class SJC_AffiliatePromos {<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The techniques used in the code above were covered in the second post of this series.<\/a> Next, we get into the code which contains the first step for this tutorial\u2026creating a table for your plugin within the WordPress database:<\/strong><\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/create function for creating table in WP DB<\/p>\n function SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable () {<\/p>\n global $wpdb;<\/p>\n \/\/define table name<\/p>\n $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘sjc_affiliate_promotions’;<\/p>\n \/\/create code for constructing table<\/p>\n $sql = “CREATE TABLE $table_name (<\/p>\n id int(100) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,<\/p>\n date_created datetime DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ NOT NULL,<\/p>\n date_updated datetime DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ NOT NULL,<\/p>\n promotion_name VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL,<\/p>\n promotion_body text NOT NULL,<\/p>\n promotion_link VARCHAR(200) DEFAULT ” NOT NULL,<\/p>\n UNIQUE KEY id (id)<\/p>\n );”;<\/p>\n \/\/include WP files essential for creating your own tables<\/p>\n require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin\/includes\/upgrade.php’);<\/p>\n dbDelta($sql);<\/p>\n }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the code above, we start with the \u201cmethod\u201d (aka \u201cfunction,\u201d as I explain in part three of this series<\/a>), which we will use to create the database structure:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n function SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable () {<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We begin this function with the global \u201c$wpdb\u201d which we covered in part five of this series:<\/a><\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n global $wpdb;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After that, you\u2019ll see a line of code which establishes a name for our database table:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/define table name<\/p>\n $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘sjc_affiliate_promotions’;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This code ^ uses some new techniques. First, we have the variable \u201cprefix,\u201d which as you can see is part of the \u201c$wpdb\u201d class. This variable stores the standard prefix \u201cwp_\u201d which is used in all existing WordPress database tables.<\/p>\n Next, you use the period (.) character to \u201cconcatenate\u201d (concatenation is explained in part six of this series<\/a>) the \u201cwp_\u201d prefix to your very own table name. The table name will be \u201csjc_affiliate_promotions.\u201d So the end result will be a variable named \u201c$table_name\u201d which represents the exact table name of \u201cwp_sjc_affiliate_promotions.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201csjc\u201d in this example represents my full initials. I\u2019ve done this to ensure that my table is unique. If I\u2019d not done this, someone could have also named their table \u201caffiliate_promotions\u201d and we\u2019d have a table naming conflict on our hands. I suggest you use your own \u201csignature\u201d to do the same when creating your WordPress database tables.<\/p>\n After this code, you\u2019ll find a considerably complicated block of code for creating the actual structure of your database table:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘sjc_affiliate_promotions’;<\/p>\n \/\/create code for constructing table<\/p>\n $sql = “CREATE TABLE $table_name (<\/p>\n id int(100) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,<\/p>\n date_created datetime DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ NOT NULL,<\/p>\n date_updated datetime DEFAULT ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ NOT NULL,<\/p>\n promotion_name VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL,<\/p>\n promotion_body text NOT NULL,<\/p>\n promotion_link VARCHAR(200) DEFAULT ” NOT NULL,<\/p>\n UNIQUE KEY id (id)<\/p>\n );”;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the fifth post of this series, I described how WordPress database tables are structured, in columns and rows like an Excel spreadsheet. The code which comes after the \u201c$sql=\u201d represents the columns which will be created in your database. Notice that we use a command called \u201cCREATE TABLE\u201d to create a table with the \u201c$table_name\u201d which you assigned earlier (\u201cwp_sjc_affiliate_promotions\u201d).<\/p>\n Next, you see seven lines of code. The first six of these tell WordPress what kind of database columns to create. We\u2019ll talk about the seventh line in just a moment. To keep this explanation simple, I\u2019m going to translate each of the first six lines and show you exactly what they\u2019re doing:<\/p>\n Here, a column named \u201cid\u201d is being created. This column will contain numbers\/integers (\u201cint\u201d means \u201cinteger\u201d) and the maximum value of these integers will be 100. This means that the \u201cid\u201d column will only be able to store 100 records (rows are called \u201crecords) of data. The numbers in this column will count upwards one at a time (AUTO_INCREMENT) automatically as new rows of data are stored.<\/p>\n Here, a column named \u201cdate_created\u201d is being created. This column will contain a date\/time stamp (\u201cdatetime\u201d) and the DEFAULT value will be ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ instead of just a null value (NOT NULL).This will help us keep track of the exact time when records are first stored in the \u201cwp_sjc_affiliate_promotions\u201d table.<\/p>\n Here a column named is \u201cdate_updated\u201d is being created. This column will also contain a date\/time stamp (\u201cdatetime\u201d) and the DEFAULT value will be ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’ instead of just a null value (NOT NULL).This will help us keep track of the exact time when records in the\u00a0 \u201cwp_sjc_affiliate_promotions\u201d table are updated.<\/p>\n Here, a column named \u201cpromotion_name\u201d is being created. This column will contain the name of your affiliate promotions, which will contain a VAR<\/strong>iety of CHAR<\/strong>acters, both numbers and letters. The data in this column must be kept under (200) characters and the column must contain data (NOT NULL).<\/p>\n Here, a column named \u00a0\u201cpromotion_body\u201d is being created. This column will contain the description of your affiliate promotions, the \u201ctext\u201d data type can contain an unlimited amount of characters and the column must contain data (NOT NULL).<\/p>\n Here, a column named \u201cpromotion_link\u201d is being created. This column will contain the link to your affiliate promotions, which will contain a VAR<\/strong>iety of CHAR<\/strong>acters, both numbers and letters as well as special characters (\/, < or > for the hyperlink). The data in this column must be kept under (200) characters and the column must contain data (NOT NULL).<\/p>\n All of these commands create columns and are followed by a comma. However, the final line of the MY SQL command for creating the table does something different:<\/p>\n This command is setting the \u201cid\u201d column as a \u201cUNIQUE KEY.\u201d There can only be one unique key per table and the unique key is used to store each record as a unique value. This makes it possible to sort through and to retrieve specific data from your WordPress database.<\/p>\n Finally, we have two lines of code which WordPress requires in order to create tables in the WordPress database:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/include WP files essential for creating your own tables<\/p>\n require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin\/includes\/upgrade.php’);<\/p>\n dbDelta($sql);<\/p>\n }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u201crequire_once\u201d function means that the file between \u201c(\u201c and \u201c)\u201d is required in order to run the current script. That \u201cABSPATH\u201d is another PHP global which generates the URL of the host site. So if your WordPress site were sitting on a domain called \u201chttp:\/\/example.com,\u201d this code\u2026<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin\/includes\/upgrade.php’;<\/p>\n After the \u201crequire_once\u201d function, the \u201cdbDelta\u201d function executes the actual table creation. Remember that the variable \u201c$sql\u201d stores the commands for our database structure. I won\u2019t go into detail about how the \u201c’wp-admin\/includes\/upgrade.php\u201d or the \u201cdbDelta\u201d work because it\u2019s not knowledge which is required for creating your WordPress database tables.\u00a0 Just be sure you use them when creating tables and you\u2019ll be fine.<\/p>\n Our next block of code contains a function which creates and inserts \u201cdummy data\u201d into your new database table so that you can test the creation of your table\u2026<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/function for adding dummy data to your new table<\/p>\n function SJC_AffiliatePromos_DummyData() {<\/p>\n global $wpdb;<\/p>\n \/\/define table name<\/p>\n $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . ‘sjc_affiliate_promotions’;<\/p>\n \/\/set dummy data variables<\/p>\n $promotion_name = ‘Newsletter Signup’;<\/p>\n $promotion_body = ‘For more cool free information sign up for our newsletter. Just fill in the form on the upper right hand corner of this website!’;<\/p>\n $rows_affected = $wpdb->insert($table_name, array(‘date_created’ => current_time(‘mysql’), ‘promotion_name’ => $promotion_name, ‘promotion_body’ => $promotion_body));<\/p>\n }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We\u2019ve already covered most of the above techniques in the fifth and sixth tutorials of this series. However, the following line of code contains a new technique:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n $rows_affected = $wpdb->insert($table_name, array(‘date_created’ => current_time(‘mysql’), ‘promotion_name’ => $promotion_name, ‘promotion_body’ => $promotion_body));<\/p>\n }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u201c$rows_affected\u201d variable is storing a series of commands which use the \u201c$wpdb\u201d class once again. This time we\u2019re using it to \u201cinsert\u201d the data between \u201c(\u201c and \u201c)\u201d into the WordPress database. The \u201cinsert\u201d function takes two arguments, which are separated by a comma. The first argument ($table_name) is the name of the table where the data will be inserted.<\/p>\n The second argument is an array of data which contains the table columns, followed by the data which is to be inserted into those columns:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n array(‘date_created’ => current_time(‘mysql’), ‘promotion_name’ => $promotion_name, ‘promotion_body’ => $promotion_body)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following is a breakdown of what this code ^ is doing:<\/p>\n This concludes the methods within your plugin class which create the table and which insert the dummy data into it. Next, we have method which adds your affiliate promotion to the bottom of each blog post:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n function ActivePromotion($full_content = ”) {<\/p>\n global $wpdb;<\/p>\n \/\/grab promotions data<\/p>\n $promotion_data = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM wp_sjc_affiliate_promotions WHERE id = ‘1’”, ARRAY_A);<\/p>\n \/\/prepare to display promotion in blog footer<\/p>\n $affiliate_promotion = $promotion_data[‘promotion_body’];<\/p>\n $full_content .= $affiliate_promotion;<\/p>\n return $full_content;<\/p>\n }<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The above techniques are covered in the first tutorial of this series<\/a>. The only difference is the \u201c.=\u201d which adds the \u201c$affiliate_promotion\u201d variable to the end of your post content. Next, we use the techniques discussed in the third and fourth tutorials to create our admin menu and admin page and to display your affiliate promotions data in the admin area:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/create admin page<\/p>\n function SJC_AffiliatePromos_AdminPage() {<\/p>\n \/\/lock out unauthorized users<\/p>\n if (!current_user_can(‘manage_options’)) {<\/p>\n wp_die( __( ‘KEEP OUT! Authorized Personnel Only!’ ) );<\/p>\n }\/\/end lock out<\/p>\n \/\/spit out html for admin area<\/p>\n echo ‘<div>’;<\/p>\n echo ‘<h1>Welcome to Affiliate Promotions!<\/h1>’;<\/p>\n echo ‘<p>This will be the command center for the Affiliate Promotions Plugin.<\/p>’;<\/p>\n echo ‘<\/div>’;<\/p>\n \/\/grab users information from the database<\/p>\n global $wpdb;<\/p>\n \/\/grab promotions data<\/p>\n $promotion_data = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM wp_sjc_affiliate_promotions WHERE id = ‘1’”, ARRAY_A);<\/p>\n echo ‘Active Affiliate Promotion:’;<\/p>\n echo $promotion_data[‘promotion_name’];<\/p>\n echo “<br \/>”;<\/p>\n echo $promotion_data[‘promotion_body’];<\/p>\n } \/\/end of html for admin page<\/p>\n function SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler_PluginMenu() {<\/p>\n add_options_page(‘SJC Affiliate Promotions’, ‘SJC Affiliate Promotions’, ‘manage_options’, ‘sjc-affiliate-promotions-admin’, array(&$this,SJC_AffiliatePromos_AdminPage));<\/p>\n }\/\/end plugin menu<\/p>\n } \/\/ close class<\/p>\n <\/p>\n } \/\/close check or existing class<\/p>\n After closing our plugin class, we assign a handler to our class (explained in the second tutorial of this series<\/a>):<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/if the class exists, assign a handler to it<\/p>\n if(class_exists(SJC_AffiliatePromos)){<\/p>\n $SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler = new SJC_AffiliatePromos();<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally, we use some new WordPress functions to execute the new methods we\u2019ve added to our class\u2026<\/p>\n In the code below, we use the WordPress function \u201cregister_activation_hook\u201d to execute some commands when your plugin is activated:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/run code to create table when plugin is activated<\/p>\n register_activation_hook(__FILE__,array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable’));<\/p>\n \/\/run code to populate table with dummy data when plugin is activated<\/p>\n register_activation_hook(__FILE__,array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_DummyData’));<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u201cregister_activation_hook\u201d takes two arguments, which are separated by a comma. The first argument is the name of the file which, when activated, initiates the function given in the second argument.<\/p>\n That \u201c_FILE_\u201d that you see in both uses of the \u201cregister_activation_hook\u201d represents the current file, which is your actual plugin file. So applying what you learned in the past tutorials of this series, this line of code\u2026.<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/run code to create table when plugin is activated<\/p>\n register_activation_hook(__FILE__,array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable’));<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2026would translate into this command:<\/p>\n \u201cWordPress! When the current plugin file is activated, I want you to use the ‘$SJC_AffiliatePromos_CreateTable’ method to create a new table in the WordPress database.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And this line of code\u2026<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/run code to populate table with dummy data when plugin is activated<\/p>\n register_activation_hook(__FILE__,array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_DummyData’));<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2026would translate into this command:<\/p>\n \u201cWordPress! When the current plugin file is activated, I want you to use the ‘$SJC_AffiliatePromos_DummyDate’ method to put some dummy data into the new WordPress database table.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Once that\u2019s done, we apply the techniques covered in the first three tutorials in this series to set up our plugin\u2019s admin page AND to add our affiliate promotions data to the end of our blog posts:<\/p>\n {code type=php}<\/p>\n \/\/tell your handler to build the plugin menu using WP action<\/p>\n add_action(‘admin_menu’, array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler_PluginMenu’),1);<\/p>\n \/\/add active promotion to your blog footers<\/p>\n add_filter(‘the_content’, array($SJC_AffiliatePromos_Handler, ‘ActivePromotion’));<\/p>\n }\/\/close assignment of handler<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And that\u2019s all there is to the source code for this tutorial\u2026but there\u2019s more!<\/p>\n Okay, so now you know how to create a WordPress plugin, alter post and title data, add an admin menu and admin page, create a new database table, populate it with data AND grab data out of the WordPress database to display on your WordPress site and in the admin area!<\/p>\n But if you think this is exciting, wait till you see what we\u2019re doing next. We\u2019ll be creating some forms in the admin area so you can make store and update information in your WordPress database.<\/p>\n More to come!<\/p>\n -Best,<\/p>\n Seth C<\/p>\n How to Create Your Very First WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/strong>Step #1: Create Your WordPress Database Table<\/h2>\n
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Step #2: Add Test Data to Your WordPress Database Table<\/h2>\n
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Step #3: Have Your Plugin Class Handler Create Your Table and Add Your Data<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s Next?<\/h2>\n
Other Posts in This WordPress Plugin Construction Series<\/h2>\n
\nWordPress Plugin Construction for the Non-Programmer: Part II<\/a><\/strong>
\nWordPress Plugin Construction for the Non-Programmer: Part III<\/a><\/strong>
\nWordPress Plugin Construction for the Non-Programmer: Part IV<\/a><\/strong>
\nWordPress Plugin Construction for the Non-Programmer: Part V<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n