New Video Class: Build a WordPress Widget
This week’s WordPress class is essential for anyone who wants to develop advanced WordPress sites.
In this class, Topher demonstrates how to build a WordPress widget for a site you’re working on.
Topher shows you how to create a widget which pulls in an external RSS feeds, parses the data, and show it on your WordPress site.
Outline of the Build a WordPress Widget Class
- Introduction
- Basics of OOP in PHP
- Documenting Code
- The Widget Class
- The Data Fetcher Function
- The Data Render Function
- The Widget Function
- The Form Function
- The Update Function
- Register the Widget
- Summary