WordPress Plugin API
March 15, 2006
Lately I've been playing around with the WordPress Plugin API and I must say that I am thoroughly impressed with the wide range of functionality and control you have over the system using the hooks that are provided. To aid me in my learning experience, I figured the best way to learn the system would be to write a few plugins. So, that's exactly what I did.
If you haven't noticed, throughout the website there are now several acronyms linked. This is the result of my AutoAcro plugin, which (obviously) automatically links acronyms as they are spotted from within the content. I was inspired to do this by my previous Internal Formatting engine.
I also wrote a Contact Form plugin, which is currently being utilized on my contact page. It should be fairly obvious as to what this does.
Yes, I do plan on releasing these plugins. I haven't yet decided if I'm going to submit them to the main WordPress website because there are already similar ones there, but they will definitely be available here from within the projects section.