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My Plugin

Class based WordPress starter plugin. Accumulate best practices in developing WordPress plugin.

by SM Uddin · github.com/smuddin/wp-boilerplate-plugin · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/smuddin/wp-boilerplate-plugin/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
Readme github.com/smuddin/wp-boilerplate-plugin ↗

WordPress boilerplate plugin

Class based WordPress starter plugin. Accumulate best practices in developing WordPress plugin.

Features

  1. Class based architecture.
  2. Uses composer PSR-4 based autoloading. Plugin functionl classes will go under src folder. Class name and file name should match.
  3. Focus on minimal code. Avoid extra comments.

Steps to follow

  1. Rename the main plugin file from my-plugin.php to your plugin's slug.
  2. Search and replace the following texts: my-plugin, My Plugin, MyPlugin, myPlugin
  3. Rename languages/my-plugin.pot file to match your plugin's slug.
  4. Remove "files": ["includes/template-functions.php"] line composer.json file and includes/template-functions.php file if you don't have non-class files or any file outside src folder.
  5. Run composer install command
  6. Final check in src/Loader.php and src/Plugin.php file for any error.
  7. Check required plugin list in src/Loader.php file and update the array accordingly. e.g. Here woocommerce is added as an example.
  8. Remove template folder, if you don't have WC template.
  9. Remove activation or deactivation code, if you don't need it.