Plugins Background Edit

The primary means of extending WordPress is the plugin. The WordPress Plugin Basics documentation provides details on building a plugin.

The quickest way to start is to create a new directory in wp-content/plugins/ to contain your plugin code. For this example, call it myguten-plugin.

Inside this new directory, create a file called myguten-plugin.php. This is the server-side code that runs when your plugin is active.

For now, add the following code in the file:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Fancy Quote
*/

To summarize, you should have a directory wp-content/plugins/myguten-plugin/ which has the single file myguten-plugin.php.

Once that is in place, go to your plugins list in wp-admin and you should see your plugin listed.

Click Activate and your plugin will load with WordPress.