Tutorials

Create a plugin with a header, hook into WordPress and activate it.

Organise files, prefix everything, guard direct access and keep the main file small.

Run setup on activation, clean up on deactivation, and remove data on uninstall when users ask for it.

Add admin menus and submenus with the right capabilities, and render admin pages.

Register settings, sections and fields with sanitisation, so options save securely.

WordPress from a developer’s view: core, themes, plugins, the database and the block editor.

Run WordPress locally with tools such as wp-env, Laragon or Local, and enable debugging.

What lives in wp-admin, wp-includes and wp-content, and the wp-config.php settings developers change.

How actions and filters work, add_action and add_filter, and finding the right hook.

How the Loop displays posts, common template tags, and the main query.

The core tables, how posts, meta, terms and options relate, and why direct SQL is rarely needed.

Control order with priority, accept arguments, remove callbacks, and add hooks to your own code.

Register post types with the right labels, supports, rewrite rules and REST settings.

Register hierarchical and flat taxonomies, attach them to post types and query by term.

Build custom queries, pagination, ordering, and performance flags such as no_found_rows.

Filter by custom fields and terms, combine conditions, and know when meta queries get slow.

Modify archives and search safely with pre_get_posts instead of extra queries.

Load CSS and JavaScript the WordPress way, with dependencies, versions, defer and conditional loading.