Wordpress Plugin Development

<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #676767;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wordpress Plugin Development</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Definition: This technique involves developing a new Wordpress plugin. You can get links directly from blogs that use your plugin but this doesn’t happen by default, the user of the plugin has to opt-in to giving you the link. But this isn’t the only way that this technique can get you links; you can also get links from people who review and use the plugin.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In order to benefit from this, you should be sure to have a landing page for your plugin on your own website; otherwise people will just link to the page on Wordpress.org where your plugin is listed.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Types of links you get: You do have a chance of getting lots of sitewide links if you allow people the option to link to you from the plugin itself -- mainly if your plugin is one that sits in the footer or sidebar. However, most people will not need to worry about this. In general, you will get links from websites that review your plugin, so they will be editorially given, will contain your branded anchor text and probably link to a deep page on your website.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The process: The process of developing a Wordpress plugin is quite complicated and requires a really good Wordpress developer to work. The details of creating a plugin are outside the scope of this book but I will outline the rest of the process. It is quite similar to the one used for building your own small app or tool.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;">★ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Research your industry to find problems that people have – can you build a simple</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wordpress plugin that will help solve this problem?</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;">★ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Email a few bloggers in your industry and ask them if a Wordpress plugin would solving this problem would be useful to them</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;">★ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If the idea looks like it is of interest to people, work with your developers or hire a</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">developer to build out the plugin. Remember to keep it as simple as you can</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;">★ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Test the plugin with the bloggers who you contacted in step 2 and get their feedback. Iterate on this and improve if you can</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;">★ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Once completed, add the plugin to your website and add it to the </span></span><span style="color: #3a8dc3;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wordpress plugin</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">directory</span></span><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">, where it will have to be approved</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #3a8dc3;">★ </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #343434;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Make sure you do outreach to bloggers who may be interested in using the plugin, ask them for a review and within this, and see if they will link to you</span></span></span></span></span></div>

Wordpress Plugin Development

miller hiller 0 August 17, 2015

Wordpress Plugin DevelopmentDefinition: This technique involves developing a new Wordpress plugin. You can get links directly from blogs that use your plugin but this doesn’t happen by default, the user of the plugin has to opt-in to giving you the… Read more »

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