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Finding references and documentation

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Finding references and documentation

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, I want to look at how to dig into the WordPress documentation. We've already looked a little bit here at the WordPress codex and at the developer's code reference. We've even looked at some source code for WordPress. What I'd like to do now is show you how to best use these resources to find the information you need. Sometimes it's going to feel a little like a scavenger hunt. You'll find one piece of information that gives you a clue to look for the next one, and so forth. So I'm going to go ahead and start here at the main codex page. And note that there's a section on writing a plugin. Let's take a look at each of these in turn. This writing a plugin page is a great resource that walks you through all the basics you need to know. From the table of contents here, you can see that it covers file naming, structure, interacting with the database, even internationalizing your plugin…

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