Before starting any new project it’s a very good ideal to do a little planning first. Building a WordPress plugin should be no different.
There are many ways to to plan out your project. I’ll outline a few for you here.
Flow chart:

Using a flow chart program or just drawing one up on a white board [...]

I have really been digging into WordPress for the last few weeks. I have had more than a few request for custom WordPress themes, but I’ve never really bothered to do it.
The top plugin request I get is for an guest blogger header plugin. I had written a little how to using WordPress templates, but [...]