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WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

You're reading from   WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook Create powerful plugins to extend the world's most popular CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788291187
Length 386 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Yannick Lefebvre Yannick Lefebvre
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Preface 1. Preparing a Local Development Environment 2. Plugin Framework Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. User Settings and Administration Pages 4. The Power of Custom Post Types 5. Customizing Post and Page Editors 6. Accepting User Content Submissions 7. Customizing User Data 8. Creating Custom MySQL Database Tables 9. Leveraging JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX Scripts 10. Adding New Widgets to the WordPress Library 11. Enabling Plugin Internationalization 12. Distributing Your Plugin on wordpress.org

Displaying custom database table data in shortcodes

The purpose of creating custom tables is often to store information to be shared with website visitors. As such, it is important to give users the ability to easily display their new content stored in custom tables on their website. The most straightforward method to achieve this goal is to create one or more shortcodes that can be inserted on any post or page to render the desired information.

This recipe shows how to implement a new shortcode that will be used to display a bug listing on a page.

Getting ready

You should have already followed the Deleting records from custom tables recipe to have an existing framework to augment. Alternatively, you can get the resulting...

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