Summary

We learned about the advantages of WordPress development, and what WordPress has to offer to plugin authors. We have also seen that there are certain challenges along the way, which we will address in this book.

The six plugins that we will create in the following chapters will show you exactly how to create a WordPress plugin from scratch and have it perform the concrete functionality you need, whether it's on the front page or in the administration backend.

Having armed ourselves with useful development tools, we are ready to start developing some cool WordPress plugins!