{"id":229,"date":"2021-10-09T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T10:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T10:58:43","slug":"ive-made-a-new-wordpress-plugin-after-12-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/ive-made-a-new-wordpress-plugin-after-12-year\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve made a new WordPress Plugin after a 12 year gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, I enjoy playing computer games as a hobby and over the years there has been clip service websites popping up to show off your best moments. <a href=\"https:\/\/medals.tv\">https:\/\/medals.tv<\/a> is one of these.<br><br>However there&#8217;s no plugin for WordPress to bring these videos in to posts automatically.<br><br>That was until today &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/boingball-medaltv-shortcode\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/boingball-medaltv-shortcode\/<\/a><br><br>This plugin I&#8217;ve created allows you to use the short code medaltv to show your latest videos which you have uploaded to there service via the MedalTV API<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example of this running below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><h3><b>Triple Helicopter Downed in 60 seconds<\/b><\/h3><iframe width='640' height='360' src='https:\/\/medal.tv\/clip\/itRRXcYaOVGneaPkK\/FsuXmqPWi534XVwn?loop=1&autoplay=0&cta=1' frameborder='0' allow='autoplay' allowfullscreen class='medal-clip' id='contentId-5042841'><\/iframe><\/br><br><br>Challenges I&#8217;ve faced making this, WordPress and PHP have come a long way since I last looked at how a WordPress Plugin worked.<br>Securing Input and Validation as I&#8217;ve also added a Admin Menu to this code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-1024x929.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-1024x929.png 1024w, https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-768x697.png 768w, https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image.png 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I enjoy playing computer games as a hobby and over the years there has been clip service websites popping up to show off your best moments. https:\/\/medals.tv is one of these. However there&#8217;s no plugin for WordPress to bring these videos in to posts automatically. That was until today &#8211; https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/boingball-medaltv-shortcode\/ This plugin I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/10\/ive-made-a-new-wordpress-plugin-after-12-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;ve made a new WordPress Plugin after a 12 year gap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banfi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}