Creating and Maintaining WordPress Plugins

Writing plugins is a great resumé booster as well as a way to give
back to the community. WordPress Lead Developer (and plugin author)
Mark Jaquith will walk you through the process of architecting,
writing, publishing, and maintaining a WordPress plugin. Covered
topics will include:

  • How to structure a plugin
  • Best practices for hooks
  • A philosophy for WordPress plugins
  • Getting your plugin in the plugin repository
  • Basic SVN flow
  • Maintaining your plugin