Practical Digital Skills Workshops

Learn how to create plugins for your website

Fun • Interactive • In-person or Online

Creating Plugins for Your Website

A practical workshop for website owners, designers, developers, and digital enthusiasts who want to understand plugins, extend website functionality, and create their first plugin.

Format Hands-on workshop
Delivery In-person or online
Duration Half-day or full-day

Workshop Overview

Modern websites rely heavily on plugins and extensions to add functionality, automate processes, improve user experience, and support growth.

This practical workshop introduces participants to the concept of plugins and shows how they are created, installed, and deployed to enhance websites and digital platforms.

Participants will gain a clear understanding of how plugins work and will create, install, activate, and test a simple plugin during the session.

The workshop focuses on practical learning, helping participants move from curiosity to confidence in understanding how plugins extend digital systems.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand what plugins are and why they are used
  • Learn how plugins extend website functionality
  • Understand how code becomes a working plugin
  • Create a first simple plugin
  • Install and activate a plugin on a website
  • Test, refine, and share a plugin

Workshop Structure

  1. What Is a Plugin? Understanding plugin architecture and why plugins matter in modern website development.
  2. How Plugins Work How plugins interact with websites and extend functionality.
  3. From Code to Plugin Understanding the basic structure behind a plugin.
  4. Create Your First Plugin Hands-on exercise in building a simple plugin.
  5. Install and Activate Your Plugin Deploying the plugin on a website and getting it working.
  6. Test Your Plugin and Share Testing functionality, refining it, and understanding next steps.

Recommended Pricing

Corporate / Organisation Rate

Half-day: £900 – £1,200

Full-day: £1,600 – £2,200

Community / Charity Rate

Half-day: £500 – £700

Full-day: £900 – £1,200

Individual Ticket Model

Typical pricing: £80 – £150 per participant

Ready to Build Your First Plugin?

This workshop is designed to help participants understand plugins in a practical, accessible way and begin extending websites with confidence.

Register for the Workshop