WordPress plugin construction

Tools for developing and running a awesome WordPress website. Please select a folder in the list above to see the plugin's development.

Two programmers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming

An article about code quality

http://engineering.quora.com/Moving-Fast-With-High-Code-Quality

Plugin headers

readme.txt https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-your-readme-txt-works/

=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: (comma, separated, list of wordpress.org userid's)
Donate link: https://example.com/
Tags: comments, spam
Requires at least: 4.9
Tested up to: 5.2.2
Requires PHP: 7.0
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Here is a short description of the plugin. This should be no more than 150 characters. No markup here.

https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/header-requirements/ @wordpress-plugin

/**
 * Plugin Name
 *
 * @package     PluginPackage
 * @author      Your Name
 * @copyright   2019 Your Name or Company Name
 * @license     GPL-2.0-or-later
 *
 * @wordpress-plugin
 * Plugin Name: Plugin Name
 * Plugin URI:  https://example.com/plugin-name
 * Description: Description of the plugin.
 * Version:     1.0.0
 * Author:      Your Name
 * Author URI:  https://example.com
 * Text Domain: plugin-slug
 * License:     GPL v2 or later
 * License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
 */

How to add images to a WordPress plugin?

• assets/banner-772x250.png
• assets/icon-128x128.png
• assets/icon-256x256.png
• assets/screenshot-1.jpg (530px + 1+1 border)
• http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?&searchterm=Flat%20modern%20design%20with%20shadow

One-class file comment

<?php
/**
 * Administration API: WP_Internal_Pointers class
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @since 4.4.0
 */

/**
 * Core class used to implement an internal admin pointers API.
 *
 * @since 3.3.0
 */
final class WP_Internal_Pointers {

Recommended plugins

• https://vip.wordpress.com/plugins/
• http://wpgear.org/
• http://themehybrid.com/plugins
• Post connector: post-connector, posts-to-posts, related-posts-for-wp

Data structure plugin categories

• CPT (Custom port type)
• Custom taxonomy
• Custom post meta
• Custom taxonomy meta
• Custom user meta
• Plugin option page
• Theme options page
• Shortcodes
• Widgets
• Widget display conditions widget-context
• Search custom contents

Various content plugin categories

1. Content Forcing
   • force-featured-image
   • mu-deny-giant-image-uploads/
2. Content Fixes
   • mu-shortcode-unautop/
   • custom-post-type-permalinks
3. UI tuning / Bulk edit aid
   • Editor: tinymce-advanced
   • Lenghten taxonomy selector boxes, see: content-extras/nav-menu-meta-box-length.php https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32237
   • Keep category tree in post editor Category Checklist Tree category-checklist-tree
   • mu-cleanup-admin/
   • wp-solarized
   • mark-posts
   • https://github.com/fusioneng/Unified-Post-Types

   add_filter( 'unified_post_types', function ( $post_types ) {
       $post_types[] = 'portfolio';
       $post_types[] = 'news';
       return $post_types;
   });

   • simple-page-ordering
   • post-types-order
   • Media URL column, see: content-extras/media-url-column.php
   • codepress-admin-columns
   • featured-image-column
   • advanced-excerpt
   • Advanced Image Styles advanced-image-styles
   • unattach
4. Content representation
   • Pods
   • https://github.com/alleyinteractive/wordpress-fieldmanager
   • CMB2
   • https://github.com/jtsternberg/Shortcode_Button with CMB2
   • shortcode-ui
   • custom-content-shortcode
   • column-shortcodes
   • tablepress
   • Map wp-geo
   • ankyler widget
5. Imaging
   • Cloudinary
   • my-eyes-are-up-here
6. Tracking
   • google-universal-analytics/
   • .
7. CDN
   • https://github.com/markjaquith/WP-Stack/blob/master/WordPress-Dropins/wp-stack-cdn.php
   • .

Manage WordPress installation with git

1. Core as submodule at /company/ with URL https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git
2. Theme as submodule with URL file:///home/user/website/theme.git
3. WP.org plugins are gitignore-d.
4. Non-WP.org plugins as submodules with URL file:///home/user/website/plugin.git

Manage WordPress plugins with composer

http://wpackagist.org/

WordPress .gitignore

See https://github.com/szepeviktor/debian-server-tools/blob/master/webserver/wordpress.gitignore