Title: Help making plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help making plugin

 *  [ensellitis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ensellitis/)
 * (@ensellitis)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/)
 * Can someone help me make a simple plugin? I have a shoutbox I want to convert
   to a plugin, it reads from a flat file and I am having trouble understanding 
   some of these plugin writing tutorials I have been reading… Any help would be
   greatly appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-208792)
 * If it’s of any help, there currently is a shoutbox plugin for WordPress.
 * [http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=196](http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=196)
 *  Thread Starter [ensellitis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ensellitis/)
 * (@ensellitis)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-208794)
 * I wanted to use my own shoutbox that I had written for me awhile back… Besides,
   I need to learn to write plugins one of these days =) I have started figuring
   it out by doing what I did to learn what I do already… Find every plugin I can,
   disect it like a frog in science class, and learn how the guts work. =)
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-208799)
 * Here are some guides and tutorials that may be of some help:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API)
   [http://www.asymptomatic.net/archives/2005/02/22/1328/how-to-write-a-simple-wordpress-plugin/](http://www.asymptomatic.net/archives/2005/02/22/1328/how-to-write-a-simple-wordpress-plugin/)
 *  Thread Starter [ensellitis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ensellitis/)
 * (@ensellitis)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-208817)
 * Ok, here is the ALPHA version of my first plugin…
 * [http://www.ensellitis.com/?p=50](http://www.ensellitis.com/?p=50)
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-209182)
 * Well done!
 *  [prissed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prissed/)
 * (@prissed)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-209185)
 * Good job!
 * I, myself, don’t have any use for a shoutbox plugin, but nothing beats the feeling
   of accomplishment of creating your first plugin. Congratulations. 😀
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-209186)
 * Can you please direct me to an example of how it is used?
    Thanks, jim
 *  [prissed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prissed/)
 * (@prissed)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-plugin/#post-209187)
 * jwurster: [http://www.ensellitis.com/](http://www.ensellitis.com/)
 * It’s at the bottom of the sidebar.

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