I’ve been asked by Adam Baker of ManVsDebt fame to create a plugin that will help him organise his Stuff page.

In case you don’t know, Adam Baker, his wife and his young daughter are off travelling the world (currently they’re in New Zealand) and Adam is blogging about his attempts to get out of debt and into life. A noble aim and a pretty damned exciting adventure by all accounts.

Anyhow, one of the pages on his blog features lists of all the stuff that he and his family own. At the moment, it is just a single page with a big long list.

Adam put a call out on Twitter for someone to help re-organise this page and I volunteered my services. So, this weekend at Line In will be mostly about me creating a new plugin which I have tentatively named TabberList.

And, in a fit of productivity, I have also decided that I’m going to blog about my adventures in WordPress Plugin Development Land.

I have tentatively named this “Developing a Plugin”.

Snappy.

Part 1 – Planning

I’ve heard rumours that having some sort of a plan is often a good idea if you’re going to do something big and so, being the kind of man that likes to experience new things, I thought I’d give it a go. Here’s my first attempt:

My Plugin Plan

Not too shabby, right?

I know, I know. I can turn my hand to anything. Did you see the database table outline in the top right hand corner? Pretty proud of that part.

Now that I have a plan firmly in hand, I’m ready to start hacking WordPress to pieces.

Hold on to your mousemats, it’s going to be a hell of a ride*.

*Excitement not guaranteed.

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