Creating a plugin is the recommended way to modify or extend the default WordPress functionality. That way, you can update the WordPress core files without losing the modifications you’ve made.
With creating a plugin, you can make basic to complex customizations to your WordPress website.
Other plugins like woocommerce, also allow other plugins to make customizations to it’s default functionality, so you can update your woocommerce plugin without losing the changes that you made.
[Think of a Plugin…]
- Create a folder under the plugins folder.
- Under that folder, create your main plugin file.
- At the top of that file, add the ff. Codes:
- After saving it, go to the dashboard, click plugins, and there you can see the plugin that you’ve just created.
- The next thing you need to do is to create the actual function of your plugin.
- One way to intervene with the WordPress default functionality is through hooks. If you want to create a reusable dynamic content for your posts and pages, you can create shortcodes. You can even create your own database tables. Creating custom post types and taxonomies might be the best solution for the functionality of your plugin.
The possibility is endless.
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