Harbour Core

Companion WordPress plugin for Harbour Tree Care. Holds everything the site does — as opposed to how it looks — so it survives a theme change: post types, quote enquiries with photo upload, firewood ordering (pay on delivery, postcode radius check), reviews, job gallery, JSON-LD schema, and business settings.

Installed as wp-content/plugins/harbour-core. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 8.1+. Text domain harbour-core, British English throughout.

Why a plugin, not the theme

If the design is ever rebuilt, the log orders, enquiry history, reviews and job gallery are untouched. The rule: if it would need to survive a redesign, it lives here. The theme may render a log-order form; it must not define one. Templates for plugin-owned content live in templates/ with a theme-override lookup, the way WooCommerce does it.

Data safety

uninstall.php does not delete enquiries, orders or reviews by default — removing a plugin should not destroy a business's customer records. Deletion is an explicit opt-in in settings.

The plugin stores names, phone numbers, addresses and photographs of people's property: personal data under UK GDPR. A personal-data exporter and eraser, consent logging, and configurable retention are part of the spec (privacy.php).

Self-updating

Updates appear in Plugins whenever a release is tagged here, via a vendored copy of Plugin Update Checker v5.7 (vendor/, committed).

Releasing

The Version: header in harbour-core.php is the single source of truth and must equal the release tag minus the v. CI enforces this.

# bump Version: in harbour-core.php, update CHANGELOG.md, commit
git commit -am "chore(release): v0.1.1"
git tag v0.1.1
git push origin main --tags