This is Part 2 of The Complete Guide To Writing a WordPress Widget Series.
The process of creating WordPress widgets is relatively straightforward regardless of what functionality you’re building. That is to say that thanks to the WordPress API, there’s a standard way to put together a widget
But before jumping into writing code, it’s important to understand how to navigate and to use the available resources for WordPress-based development.
In this post, we’ll take a quick look at the WordPress Codex and then put together some skeleton code that we’ll use throughout the remainder of this series to create our plugin.
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