A few weeks ago, Brian Notess shared a great post on how to roll your own WordPress widget the easy way. In certain cases such as a time crunch or simple functionality, that works great.
But if you’re serious about getting into WordPress development, then learning how to build widgets, create plugins, and share your work with the community, then it’s important to learn how to do that using the WordPress API.
In this series, we’re going to be building a WordPress widget from scratch. By the end you will be familiar with the WordPress widget API, how to use the Codex for research for future development, and how to write your code in such a way that its maintainable by you and/or a team.
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