I created a small plugin that ads the bitcoin market price to your wordpress blog. The price comes directly from BitStamp and if your blog is related to bitcoin, you could consider adding it. The plugin looks slick and simple, which is an alternative to the other plugins. Download plugin here. This is what it looks like:
Bitcoin Price Ticker
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. There are a few steps to create a WordPress plugin.
Step 1: Connect to the web server through SSH or FTP/SFTP. This should be pretty straight forward. If you want to connect by ssh you can use the command
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ssh username@server
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Step 2: Enter the directory /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ and create a directory called hello. Enter this direcotry and create a new file hello.php
Step 3:
Add this code to hello.php:
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/*
Plugin Name: hello
Plugin URI: https://talkera.org/wordpress
Description: Hello plugin.
Version: 1.0.0
Author: Talkera
Author URI: https://talkera.org/wordpress
*/
add_action('wp_footer','hello_wp_footer');
function hello_wp_footer(){
echo '
Hello world! '. get_option('blogname') .'
';
}
?>
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Step 4:
Open your wordpress administration panel, go to plugins and activate. Now visit your page and look at the bottom of the page. The message ‘Hello World’ should appear.