A simple skeleton plugin for Wordpress

Preparing for the upcoming Meandre release, as part of the larger SEASR on, I have been exploring a bit the inner machinery of WordPress to create a simple plugin for the SEASR site that could render Meandre component and flow descriptions straight out of their RDF desciptors. Actually, it turned out to be a breeze. After being a heavy user of WordPress in several project for few years now, its extensibility keeps sparking new possibilities in my mind every time I look into any of its facets. Anyway, I am rambling. Back to the point. To hit the ground running, I started by creating a simple generic plugin that would replace a tag with parameters for something else. I looked into several freely available plugins, the one that got me going was a very simple one, the SlideShare plugin by Joost de Valk. ...

Jul 4, 2008 · 2 min · 345 words · Xavier Llorà