Learn how to make a WordPress plugin faster.
AI DOES NOT KNOW ALL THE PARAMETERS!
Please, please, please, please, please make sure you thoroughly write your prompt before putting it in AI. AI is simply something to help you write code you don’t want to spend typing yourself. You still need to have a SOLID knowledge of code & have 90%+ of your ideas READY. Otherwise, it’ll take longer to make something form AI, you will just be copying & pasting endlessly. Trust me, it won’t give you a finished product right away without this. Here are some examples:
- Unless you say
:rootto AI, it will most likely just manually change styling without:root. - Unless you specifically say, “give me something complex, with [insert code languages here]”, it will either give you a bunch of extra versions, or ask you if you want something more complex.
- Unless you say, “use this resource for this”, it will not fully read your mind.
For simple plugins it takes 1 day to make something feasable if you do everything right. I’m still learning how to write prompts in a way AI will mess up less. The starting point is exploring different WP dashboard, post edit, page edit, and seeing which ones you need to make your plugin work. Explore what your existing plugins use to function and research what the PHP for that is. Study PHP form WordPress.org too and use that in your prompt to get more from AI.
Learn How To Make WordPress Plugins For Newcomers
I feel like the documentation on making WordPress plugins is SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND when you’re starting out. They list out the individual code with some examples, but don’t always show the examples in the best way. Here are some things you can use to start out! I will be using a plugin I created with AI as an example.