How to make your first wordpress plugin

There are several types of plugins in WordPress, that is shorcode and menuadmins

What I will share now is the type shorcode

Type shortcode is a plugin that can be pasted on a wordpress post or page.

The first thing to create a wordpress plugin is to make information about the plugin in the form of comments like this.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My First Plugin
Description: put code <b>[myfirstplugin][/myfirstplugin]</b> on post or page
Version: 1
Author: Muhammad Deril
Author URI: https://www.derillab.com
*/

This section is very important because wordpress system will not read as a plugin if there is no this information.

Next create a function line to display when the plugin is called.

function myfirst_plugin() {
	$data = "It's myfirst wordpress plugin";
	
	return $data;
}

You can develop it even better, such as displaying data from a database or from ajax.

I will discuss that in another post.

Next, so that the function can be called on a post or page, you must insert it into the function that wordpress has provided like this.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My First Plugin
Description: put code <b>[myfirstplugin][/myfirstplugin]</b> on post or page of wordpress
Version: 1
Author: Muhammad Deril
Author URI: https://www.derillab.com
*/

function myfirst_plugin() {
	$data = "It's myfirst wordpress plugin";
	
	return $data;
}

add_shortcode('myfirstplugin', 'myfirst_plugin');

Save as init.php and put on any folder you can write like myfirstplugin. Archive the file folder in zip format then install it.

And to call your plugin put code [myfirstplugin][/myfirstplugin] on your post or page of wordpress