/** * @article My first WordPress plugin * * @since May 19, 2010 * @package Wordpress * * In which I praise the book * Professional WordPress (and even * more so, its followup Professional * WordPress Plugin Development) for * helping me get my first plugin * released. * * @tags open source, * WordPress books * @comments 2 comments * */
I recently got my first WordPress plugin indexed in the wordpress.org repository. It’s a piddling little widget, nothing too impressive, but the process itself was very satisfying, and one that got me appreciating in a much more direct way all the work that all the thousands of contributors put into this open source project.