How to create a wordpress plugin, a minimal example

If you’ve ever wondered how wordpress plugins work, you’ll be surprised to see how simple they are.

Let’s create a plugin (I’ll call it “capitalizer”) that just modifies the text of the blog posts.

In order to do that, create a PHP file  [wordpress root]/wp-content/plugins/capitalizer.php

and activate it from the plugins admin page. WordPress recognizes them automatically from that directory and reads the name and description from the comment.
Done ! Your posts will be all upper case from now.

That was only a minimal example in order to show how to get started. Look at the WordPress Plugin API documentation for further information or find some books on amazon, like this one

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