Book Review: Programming Joomla! Plugins by Jisse Reitsma

Programming Joomla! Plugins by Jisse Reitsma is a very precisely named book.

Jisse takes 350 pages to cover every aspect of coding Joomla plugins.

Plugins are often forgotten about by Joomla users, relegated in importance behind templates, components and modules.

Jisse dedicates a whole book to restoring plugins to their proper place - central to Joomla's power and flexibility.

If anyone is up to this task, it's Jisse. He knows plugins. Together with his team at Yireo, Jisse has released over 20 Joomla extensions. The list if his gives you a window into what plugins can do:

Put Joomla behind an SSL certificate
Merges all your CSS and Javascript files
Integrate Joomla with Github and New Relic
Schedule automatic email sending

Jisse's book focuses on the development of plugins, so you will need some PHP and XML knowledge to follow along. If you have those skills, then this book will help you write your own plugins from scratch.
Almost every page on the book is 20% to 50% full of...



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