Easy way to create a plugin?

Start with this tutorial and practice making a simpler plugin to start.

https://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/wp-tutorial-your-first-wp-plugin/

ok, I’ll take a look into it. I mean my friend literally put php coding into a few pages so the pages look like plugins themselves except that they aren’t actual plugins. They are pages I wish were made into plugins. Cuz I wanted my friend to make some modules for me and he did what I wanted him to to except he put the code on the pages and now I gotta figure out how to turn them into actual plugins so they show up on the main page.

Something like this directly into a php file and stick it into “mu-plugins”

<?php
function my_plugin() { ?>
My wicked cool stuff my friend coded for me.
<?php } ?>

Then in your index.php of the theme or any other spots in you theme files

<?php if( function_exists( 'my_plugin' ) {
       my_plugin();
}
?>

If whatever you have is in a page all by itself you could simply include it in a featured section of your index(after the header) without a plugin

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php
include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/featured_section.php");
?>

where featured_section.php contains your fancy stuff

`<div id=”mypanel_1″ class=”my_panels”>
My wicked cool stuff my friend coded for me.
</div>’

I have a featured posts carousel that I include from theme to theme this way.