WordPress Plugins
This WordPress plugin tutorial will help you learn about plugins installation, activation, usage, documentation, shortcode, and customization.
We will cover popular WordPress plugins along with other helpful resources.
WordPress Plugins
A plugin is a piece of PHP code that adds a feature to WordPress. Contact forms, SEO tools, online shops, backups, security, caching and sliders are all done by plugins. Plugins use…
WordPress Top Plugins List
This list shows well known free plugins from the official WordPress.org directory. The numbers are the active installs shown by WordPress.org in November 2026 (they are rounded, so “10+ million” means ten…
WordPress SEO with Yoast SEO Plugin
WordPress has a good base for SEO: clean HTML, permalinks, a title tag and automatic sitemaps. A plugin like Yoast SEO adds an easy screen for the title, the description and the…
Create a WordPress Plugin from Scratch
You can write your own plugin in minutes. A plugin is a folder (or even one PHP file) in wp-content/plugins. We will build a plugin that adds a notice box at the…
WordPress Plugin Settings Page (Settings API)
Most plugins need a settings page for the site owner. The Settings API of WordPress handles the form, saving, the security nonce and the messages for you, so you only describe the…
WordPress Data Validation, Sanitizing and Escaping
Most security problems in plugins and themes come from the same mistake: trusting the data from the user. In WordPress we follow one simple rule: validate or sanitize the input, escape the…
WordPress $wpdb Class
$wpdb is the global WordPress object for the database. Use it when the normal functions (WP_Query, get_option() and others) are not enough, for example to work with your own table. It already…