Good resources for Wordpress? [closed]

Answer 1

OK a couple of things - think about changing your mind on WP, the new version (Not yet public) WP 3.0 goes a LOT further than any prev. version of WP. Link to WP 3.0 download You may find that this answers/solves a few more of your "custom" problems than you imagine. Beyond that writing widgets is not to hard. At the end of the day they all use the same WP - PHP class. Once you have that code (too long to post here I think?) you can manipulate the code at will. The hardest part I usually find - and you may also - is actually in the theme not in the backend. As clients usually attempt to "stuff" many plugins into their system. Big problem is that not all plugins are well written and some conflict. Sometimes "client" education on plugins is hard.

With regards to best practice - follow the WP guidelines, pretty simple, and remember to use wp_enqueue for your JS includes rather than hard code them into the head.

If you need any help/advice etc. feel free to shout

Answer 2

Hit up the wordpress site. Seems obvious, but they have lots and lots of good docs and information.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Developer_Documentation

Answer 3

If you are more used to Rails/Cake then present this as the more viable option to the client.

Answer 4

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_Resources
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API

Answer 5

Wordpress is a great platform but documentation is clearly not at the same quality level as traditional software editors.

All Wordpress Books are written by consultants which seems to be willing more to show off their technical knowledge with a bunch of hacks instead of being really pedagogical and take you step by step from the fundamental of architecture to the uppest level.

Wordpress could have been redevelopped with a standard MVC Framework I'm surprised nobody tried.

Answer 6

i check smashingmagazine.com for tutorials, plugins, themes, tips, hacks

speckyboy.com is also a regular place i go to

usually it is more like google the task at hand and see ;)

the best way to learn, install a demo and play around or read a book along from wordpress ( the dummies series or something) that will make sure u cover all the basics and get some fun experience

Happy wordpressing