The coolest feature about WordPress is the abundant availability of plugins out there. Everyone loves plugin. There is never enough of plugins out there. But not all plugins are suitable to your specific requirements. Thus, it is best if you can build your own WordPress plugin from scratch and share it with others. Hey, that is also a good way to generate traffic to your site.

Ronald of Devlounge has written a very complete and nice series of articles on developing WordPress plugins. The series is for any WordPress user who is curious about or wants to learn how to write their own WordPress plugin. Readers of this series will have an intermediate knowledge of PHP, know a little JavaScript, and be decent at Cascading Style Sheets.

Table of contents for How to Write a WordPress Plugin :

1. How to Write a WordPress Plugin – Introduction
2. Seven Reasons to Write a WordPress Plugin
3. How to Get Ideas for WordPress Plugins
4. Structure of a WordPress Plugin
5. WordPress Plugin Actions
6. WordPress Plugin Filters
7. Constructing a WordPress Plugin Admin Panel
8. Constructing a WordPress Plugin User’s Panel
9. WordPress Plugins and Database Interaction

So are you ready to write your own WordPress plugin?