WP Tutorial: Your First WP Plugin
Here it is, a video guide to creating your first WordPress plugin (in under 5 minutes!). If people like this enough, I might do these kinds of tutorials on a regular basis.
The tutorial assumes you have some very basic PHP knowledge… syntax, function declarations, etc.

Nice explanation. It makes me believe that I could actually write a plugin. Thanks for the great tuturial.
Great video tutorial - now I will also try to write my own plugin …
hope you will do more of these video tutorials for plugins - very interesting
thank you!
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Excellent, we need more like this for wordPress. This gives me some ideas for a possible “wordPress Theme building” video. I will now go write my very first wordPress plugin… FU to the BU.
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very nice.
Wow. that is pretty cool.
I already know how to write plugins and I thought that was great. More! More!
Nice video. Obviously it was done on a Mac, what software did you use to put it together?
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Nice work, Mark. Well, explained for people new to writing WordPress plugins - especially the space before and space after “headers already sent” error that so many people ask about all the time.
go on, it’s very good and i would like to see more of this. thank you..
Mark, Fantastic!
Nice work. What was your text editor for the Mac? It looks pretty nifty. I’m using Smultron (not that great) or Adobe GoLive (horrible).
Absolutely fantastic. One of the better tutorials I’ve seen on anything. Wow.
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It loks very easy to write a plugin
of course, when you want to do other thigs (the hard ones) wou’ll have problems (with “you” I mean us, the people who can’t right plugins or those who know nothing about php
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Great video
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I’d love more tutorials. Like how to tie into a database, how to get it to automatically how up at the end of a post or how to get your own page in the admin area.
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Thanks!
Great tutorial - thanks Mark
That is a great little demo. I had been wanting to look into making a plugin and this shows just how clean and easy it can be done.
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It looks like he’s using TextMate, a fantastic text editor for Mac OS X.
a such cool explanation, it is apparently worthy to have a big thank you!
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Over the past few months, I have taught myself how to use WordPress and to install plugins, but I never understood how the plugins worked. Don’t know if I’ll ever write one, but now I can read the php script with some level of understanding. Thank you Mark.
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I love this tutorial. It is the best I have ever watched. Plus I really think you should do it on a regular basis. Please. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it. I used to think PHP was going to be loads of ugly coding but you saved my life.
OK..I’m stumped. I know so very little. Help!
Mark, fantastic job! This answered many of the most basic questions that have kept me from getting started. It unfortunately left me hungry for more of this material!! Please do put some more of these together. I think you’ve hit a much needed area of material in the world of screencasting.
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That is cool. Thanks!
More would be great!
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Great Video!
I used to search videos like this.
Thanks
VERY COOL! Thanks Mark!
I had no idea that a plugin was just a standard php file with a bit of commented text at the top… identifying it as a plugin. That’s awesome! You’ve given me my first step in writing a plugin.
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Nice one, thanks!
Makes writing WP plugins appear pretty simple. Assuming that there’s more to it than simply modifying headers and content, I sure would like to see more tutorials like this one.
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great tutorial, now I understand better like it functioned
Thaks!
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Thank you. This was great.
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Thank you Mark! I was trying to do a little reverse engineering on my already-installed plugins to figure out how to make my own…your quick tutorial helped me get the basics down.
I would love another tutorial that takes a plugin one step farther…for instance, update this plugin (foo to the bar) to allow for a “Plugin option” screen which lets you change what text you want to be filtered, and what text to replace it with. Inspired yet?
Awesome tutorial! Thanks!
Amazingly simple, yet exactly what I needed to get started ;-). Thanks for spending the 5 minutes putting this together!
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I’m looking for “guide to create wordpress plugin” on google and found your site #1. Many many thanks for this free tutorial. Keep up the good work!
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Mark, big thanks for this tutorial! Plugin creation is full easy
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yeasterday i created my first wp plugin
big thanks for your tutorial!
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This is really nice video tutorial hope to see more examples soon so i m bookmarkin it :D!!
And Thanx a loads for this lovely tutorial
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Hey, excellent tutorial. Its certainly set me off on the right track to understanding WordPress plugins.
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Great one!!!!
Thanks for this “plugin for dummies” video.
Thanks a bunch for this tutorial, it was very helpful.
Amazing… here I am a year later of when you posted the tutorial and it just gave me a giant insight of how to get started.
Congrats on the tutorial.
I noticed you mentioned in the post you would do more if you had some good feedback, i guess right now i’m going to go find any new stuff.
Thnaks!
That was a really nice intro to writing plug-ins.
Can you now add some more videos so I can learn how to make simple plug-ins that take parameters in via a plugin set up screen.
Thanks
That was perfect - exactly what I was looking for. I was trying to write pretty much the same simple plugin, but hadn’t worked out the filters. Thank you!
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Matt,
that really is awesome, I spent like 2 mts and feel like a master of WP.
thnx much.
nice video, cheers
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WOW! thanks for your help: I’will try to write a plugin fomr my site today. keep up with the good job
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Hi Mark,
Wowwwwwwwwwwww!
Thanks so much for the tutorial. That was the 5 minutes I ever spent.
Please do more of these types of tutorials with more functions and plugins.
Once again thanks for taking the time.
Cheers,
ah, thankyou very much. it’s basic but very enough to start..
otherwise i would spend day or two to read all i need just to start…
thnx bro’
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I was expecting something like this to be really difficult, but with a bit of PHP knowledge it shouldn’t be hard at all to create a simple plugin!
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I thought that tutorial was pretty good! I’m mildly surprised at the simplicity of creating a plugin, though i don’t know any php. thanks for the useful demo
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This is really a nice video.Every PHP programmer can start his new plug in for wordpress.
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Thanks for this tutorial!
I don’t even have speakers on this computer but i sat and watched it, paused the screen, typed out what you had and it worked like a charm. I’m using this now on a blog to change certain words to specific links. I want to figure out how to set this up to edit them in the wp-admin instead of doing them in the plugin coding itself. One day…. lol
This is pretty useful, just wished you did more of them.
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Very nice and easy. Can’t wait to see more and start creating my first plugin.
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This is interesting since I am planning to develop plug-ins for wordpress. Thanks for the wonderful tutorial.
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Thanks for this! I just made my first plugin. All I wanted to do for my first plugin was print some text, but this intro has already made me want to start editing things. Awesome.
Great tutorial. Maybe I could participate in the WordPress Plugin Competition
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Great tutorial for a beginner like me. Thanks a lot mark!
Mark can you provide tutorials for admin plugin as well?
Thanks! This video helped me a lot… Simple but awesome in so many levels.
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This is a really good tutorial on writing wordpress plugins. You make it seem so simple
You may or may not know but there is a chap called Robert Plank who is selling videos on how to write plugins for large amounts of money. You may want to consider doing something similar?
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Fantastic!! I’m new to WP, but am an experienced PHP developer. You have officially gotten me started on making plug-ins. I would love to see more!
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