WordPress plugin boilerplate v2.0.0

Extendable PHP classes for easy customization.

Out-of-the-box:

• Dashboard: Settings and Tools pages (unlimited)
• Custom DB cache
• Ajax requests support
• Custom admin Notices and Transients
• CSS/JS assets: combine from partials, build, minify & enqueue

Introduction:

This package was made to provide a foundation to create your own WordPress plugin with a basic functionality already implemented, like the Settings page or DB cache supprort.

This package will install in Composer [vendor] dir, making it inaccessible from WordPress installation. You must create your own folder in WP [plugins] dir and extend only those classes you will need in your project. A working example of such plugin can be found in this WordPress/Composer plugin package: orkan/wp-base1

Create plugin:

Create your plugin entry point file [WP]/wp-content/plugins/[your_plugin]/plugin.php then run() only those parts of this package you want:

namespace My\Name;
/*
 * Plugin Name: My plugin
 */
$Factory = new Factory();
$Factory->Plugin()->run();
$Factory->Settings()->run();

Tools:

The orkan/wp-base1 package comes with some example Tools and their CSS/JS assets (/assets dir) and FORM input definitions ( /config dir). The included Tools are:

$Factory->Mailer()->run(); // Example with WP Mail form
$Factory->Formix()->run(); // Example how to create custom FORM with various inputs
$Factory->Ajaxer()->run(); // Example how to handle Ajax requests

Links to these Tools will be automatically displayed in the: Dashboard > Plugins > My Plugin - meta row.

CSS/JS assets:

The example CSS/JS assets are pre-build and minified, but you can modify them and re-build on each page refresh by adding these constants to wp-config.php file:

define( 'ORK_ASSET_REBUILD_CSS', true );
define( 'ORK_ASSET_REBUILD_JS', true );
define( 'ORK_ASSET_MINIFY_CSS', true );
define( 'ORK_ASSET_MINIFY_JS', true );

Another way to rebuild assets is by using a Composer script command: composer run rebuildMyPluginAssets described in next section.

Composer:

Composer is required to install this plugin and all its dependencies and also to support autoloading class files. This README assumes following directory structure in your Composer/WordPress installation:

/htdocs
  |- /html <-- WordPress files
  |- /vendor <-- Composer files
  |- composer.json <-- root file

Add composer autoloader to wp-config.php file:

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

Turn your plugin into Composer package by adding these lines in your plugin's composer.json file:

"name": "my/wp-plugin",
"type": "wordpress-plugin",
"require": {
	"orkan/wp-base": "^2"
},
"autoload": {
	"psr-4": {
		"My\\Name\\": "src"
	}
},
"extra": {
	"installer-name": "my-plugin"
}

To properly install WP plugins from Composer repositories add these lines to your root composer.json file:

"extra": {
	"installer-paths": {
		"html/wp-content/plugins/{$name}": [
			"type:wordpress-plugin"
		],
		"html/wp-content/themes/{$name}": [
			"type:wordpress-theme"
		]
	}
}

If you decide to build your assets automatically by using Composer scripts feature eg. on every "dump autoload", you can use the included method Orkan\\WP\\Base\\Utils\\Composer::rebuildAssets

"extra": {
	"ork-wp-base": {
		"wp-config": "html/wp-config.php"
	}
}
"scripts": {
	"rebuildMyPluginAssets": [
		"@putenv PLUGIN=my-plugin",
		"Orkan\\WP\\Base\\Utils\\Composer::rebuildAssets"
	],
	"post-autoload-dump": [
		"@rebuildMyPluginAssets"
	]
}

Now you can also manually rebuild assets by running this command: composer run rebuildMyPluginAssets

Requirements:

• PHP ^7
• Composer ^2
• WordPress ^6

License:

MIT

Author

Orkan

Updated

Fri, 17 May 2024 16:41:20 +02:00