Where do I start?

To get started with plugin development, first we need to decide what problem we are trying to solve or what functionality we are trying to implement.

Let's assume that you have a website with various phone numbers listed on the site, and that this site is popular with people who access the site through a smartphone. Currently, to call one of the numbers, the user has to remember the number to dial it, or perhaps they jot it down on a piece of paper or attempt to select and copy the number through their browser. This is not very user-friendly, a much better way to do this would be to change the phone number to a click-to-call link, so the user can just click the phone number and their phone will call it. Now, you could go through ...

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