writing my first plugin, not sure what terminology to search for

  • hello everybody,
    i want to make a very simple plugin that will check every post for a certain tag (for example: [id 1234ABCD] )

    if a post is detected with the [id xxxxx] tag, i want it to then generate the post content from another table.

    i’ve seen many plugins use this model, even the wordpress photo gallery is a similar syntax. but as the title says, I have no idea what terms to search for to start my learning quest.

    also, this doesn’t have to be a whole separate plugin, i would be fine with just cutting and pasting the code where it is needed.

    thanks for the read!

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  • Thread Starter trag

    (@trag)

    i should add, i know how to do the php side where i gather and structure my data, i only need to know how to make wordpress recognize that it needs to pre-process the $content variable before printing it

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