The SitePoint WordPress blog has posted the second part of their series covering the creation of a WordPress plugin with the help of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate. In this latest article they build on the first part of the series and start in on the actual plugin development.

In the first part of my series, an introduction to the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, we looked at how the code is organised within the Boilerplate. To continue with this series, we’ll apply what we’ve learnt previously to build a real working plugin. We are going to take a look at how quickly we can get our plugin up and running using the Boilerplate code, with as little work as possible. This article will focus on creating and activating the plugin, as well as developing the admin facing functionality of the plugin.

They show you how to create a simple "time since posted" plugin with a few customizations available. They show how to use the Boilerplate generator to set up the basic plugin file structure and installing it on your WordPress application. From there they show you how to create a simple "Settings" page for the plugin and making it work via the functionality Boilerplate offers. The post then shows how to register the plugin, populate the options page and saving the changes the user makes.