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WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate serves as a foundation and aims to provide a clear and consistent guide for building your WordPress plugins.
Features
- The Plugin Boilerplate is fully-based on the WordPress Plugin API
- Uses PHPDoc conventions for easily following the code
- Liberal use of
TODO
to guide you through what you need to change - Uses a strict file organization scheme to make sure the assets are easily maintainable
- Note that this boilerplate uses
plugin.po
to provide a translation file. This is compatible with POEdit
Contents
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate includes the following files:
- This
README
- A subdirectory called
plugin-boilerplate
- Copy the
plugin-boilerplate
directory into yourwp-content/plugins
directory - Navigate to the Plugins dashboard page
- Locate the menu item that reads TODO
- Click on Activate
This will activate the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate. Because the Boilerplate has no real functionality, nothing will be added to WordPress; however, this demonstrates exactly how your plugin should behave as you're working with it.
If you opt to uncomment Line 77 which contains the following line:
add_action( 'admin_menu', array( $this, 'plugin_admin_menu' ) );
Then a new menu item will be added to the Plugins menu.
License
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
A Note About Licensing
The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is licensed under the GPL2+ or later; however, if you opt to use third-party frameworks such as Bootstrap in your work, then you should be aware of this:
The most likely occurrence of this issue is with Themes developed using Twitter Bootstrap. When reviewing such Themes, please be sure to check that, if the Theme is licensed under GPL, that the license specifies either unversioned GPL, or GPLv3.0.
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