How to customize a plugin in wordpress

We must not customize directly into the plugin's codebase. It will problematic during version upgrade and maintenance.

Ian Dunn showed a good approach wordpress plugin customization. He gave four different ways to do so:

• Use hooks: First we will see if there is any hooks available to modify the plugin as we need.
• Extend without modifying: We will write a separate plugin that runs along side the main plugin that we are customizing.
• Adding custom hooks: Add some custom hooks in the plugin, and then write a separate plugin using the custom hook to modify the main plugin.
• Overriding callbacks: We can replace a plugin's callbacks with our own callbacks. And in our callbacks, we will call functions of other plugins that will replace the main plugin.

• wp_template project structure:
• -- project
• ----wp-admin
• ----wp-content
• --------cache
• --------mu-plugins
• -------------folder_containing_custom_must_use_plugin
• --------plugins
• --------themes
• --------uploads
• ----wp-includes

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Wordpress Plugins:

1. Real-Time Health Data from Every Where:WP plugin to display real-time health data & increase sale by promoting user specific products according to health information: garazlab.com.
2. Woocommerce Stock Notification Builder:Sends desktop, mobile & email notifications with full customization.Build your own product notification system with it: garazlab.com.

Opencart Extensions:

1. Product Based Quantity Wise Shipping: Find it here.
2. OpenSSLCOMMERZ: integrate SSLCOMMERZ with opencart: Find it here.
3. Fine Search v.1.0 - Improves Opencart search feature to find relevant: Find it here.
4. Opensweetcaptcha - An easy way to generate attractive captcha for your system!: Find it here.
5. Custom Field Product - add unlimited custom fields to the product form: Find it here.
6. Formcaptcha - add captcha on the register page: Find it here.

My Books:

1. OpenCart 1.4 Template Design Cookbook.
2. Joomla Mobile Development Beginners Guide