You are not gonna believe me but in one-minute's time, you will have become the creator of a real WordPress plugin.  It’s gonna be a simple plugin, but it doesn’t matter how simple it is because it is ESSENTIAL that you create your first plugin ASAP. Creating your first plugin will help you breach the psychological barrier that so many newbie WordPress developer have. That ‘Oh, no plugins are just on a whole different level of complexity, I’m just a newbie. I'll tackle it one day’ state of mind. I know that state of mind well because I once was there too. It took me years after I created my first WordPress website till I thought I was ready to tackle it. And I'm sure I wouldn't have waited that long if I had known how simple a WordPress plugin can be. After you have created this simple plugin. You will see how a plugin is nothing different to what you already do when tweaking WordPress themes. Creating this fist plugin will make you lose your fear and reverence to that other side of WordPress. Perhaps, creating it, will even motivate to create a more complex plugin or, go crazy and build your first plugin to be publicly released on the WordPress directory. So let’s start NOW. Let’s do it without further ado. I'll be gentle with you. It won't hurt I promise. You just need to have your computer ready and a text editing app, and the rest is really just one minute. So get yourself ready because we are counting down. Three, two, one… GO! 1Open a new document in a plain text editor like TextEdit or Notepad 2Paste in the following code This is all the code you need to create a plugin The top part of the code tells WordPress your plugin details like plugin name, plugin author, plugin version, etc. The bottom contains the functional part of your plugin (the code that does something). In our case what our plugin does is to add a signature at the bottom of any post or page that says: This entry was written by Matias. 3But this is YOUR first plugin NOT my first plugin! So you need to personalize it. To personalize it you need to replace my name with yours in two places: For example, if your name is Mary Smith, in the 6th line of your code replace Matias Garrido with Mary Smith. And in the 14th line replace replace Matias with Mary 4Save your document as 1-minute-wordpress-plugin.php 5Create a folder and call it 1-minute-wordpress-plugin  As you can see the WordPress convention for plugins is to use the same name for plugin .php file and for the plugin folder. 6Put your  1-minute-wordpress-plugin.php file inside your  1-minute-wordpress-plugin folder. 7Compress your  1-minute-wordpress-plugin folder. For example, to compress a folder on a Mac you just need to right-click on that folder and on the menu that comes up select the option: Compress “1-minute-wordpress-plugin” THAT’S IT!!!! The resulting zip file 1-minute-wordpress-plugi.zip is your first … Read More