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Dovetail Studio

Modular WordPress toolkit by Dovetail Consultancy: structured data and technical SEO with Yoast SEO integration, WooCommerce product schema and breadcrumbs, Mailchimp newsletter forms and an AI virtual assistant, all managed from one plugin.

by henriqpohl · github.com/henriqpohl/dovetail-studio

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/henriqpohl/dovetail-studio/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

Readme github.com/henriqpohl/dovetail-studio ↗

Dovetail Studio is the single WordPress plugin that loads and manages Dovetail modules. Modules are never standalone plugins.

Architecture

Every module follows the same contract:

modules/<slug>/
├── module.php
├── README.md
├── USAGE.md
├── src/
│   └── Module.php
├── assets/       # optional
├── views/        # optional
├── resources/    # optional
└── docs/         # optional

module.php is a declarative manifest. src/Module.php contains the namespaced module bootstrap class. Module-specific implementation files live below src/.

Current module namespaces:

DovetailStudio\SchemaSeo\Module
DovetailStudio\Newsletter\Module
DovetailStudio\SchemaSeoWooCommerce\Module
DovetailStudio\VirtualAssistant\Module

The core loader is DovetailStudio\Core\Loader in src/Core/Loader.php.

Module lifecycle

The loader discovers modules/*/module.php, reads enabled state from dovetail_studio_modules, requires the manifest bootstrap, instantiates its declared class, and calls boot(). New modules default to enabled. Disabled modules remain installed but are not booted.

Dovetail Studio also supports ZIP upload/update and removal of disabled modules. Module database settings are intentionally preserved when module files are removed.

Shared admin UI

All Dovetail admin screens use assets/admin/dovetail-admin.css. Module-specific CSS should only contain UI that cannot be expressed with the shared design system.

Versioning

Dovetail Studio uses its own version. Each module also declares its own version in module.php and in its Module bootstrap where required.

Possible Errors and How to Fix Them

A module is listed but does not load

Confirm it is enabled and that module.php points to src/Module.php with the correct namespaced class.

Upload reports an invalid manifest

Ensure the ZIP contains one module root with module.php, README.md, USAGE.md, and src/Module.php, and that the manifest bootstrap stays inside that module directory.

A module page has missing styles

Confirm assets/admin/dovetail-admin.css exists and that the page slug is included by the loader admin asset logic.

WordPress reports a PHP fatal error after an update

Restore the previous module package, run php -l against every PHP file, and verify namespace/class names exactly match the manifest.