You're reading from WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Explore the complete set of tools to craft powerful plugins that extend the world's most popular CMS

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810777

Length 420 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

WordPress

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Yannick Lefebvre

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Preparing a Local Development Environment

2. Chapter 2: Plugin Framework Basics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: User Settings and Administration Pages

4. Chapter 4: The Power of Custom Post Types

5. Chapter 5: Customizing Post and Page Editors

6. Chapter 6: Extending the Block Editor

7. Chapter 7: Accepting User Content Submissions

8. Chapter 8: Customizing User Data

9. Chapter 9: Leveraging JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Scripts

10. Chapter 10: Adding New Widgets to the WordPress Library

11. Chapter 11: Fetching, Caching, and Regularly Updating External Site Data

12. Chapter 12: Enabling Plugin Internationalization

13. Chapter 13: Distributing Your Plugin on WordPress.org

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Adding a custom dashboard widget

Content widgets are used by website administrators to easily add content to their front-facing websites. WordPress contains another type of widget that plugin developers can use to enhance the administrator experience. Dashboard widgets are sections that appear on the front page of a website's administration area. These sections can offer any kind of functionality, from simple information displays indicating how much data is stored in a plugin to forms that allow website administrators to quickly perform configuration tasks.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Updating the page title to include custom post data using plugin filters recipe in Chapter 4, The Power of Custom Post Types, to have a starting point for this recipe. Alternatively, you can get the resulting code (ch4/ch4-book-reviews/ch4-book-reviews-v12.php) from the code bundle and activate the Chapter 4 - Book Reviews plugin.