This is a boilerplate WordPress plugin featuring namespace autoloading and integration with Carbon Fields. It is intended to be used as a starting point for creating WordPress plugins. It contains several examples and dependencies to get you started.

It may also be used as the means of separating custom code from the theme.

Here are some ways that you can contribute:

• Suggest improvements and/or code them.
• Test the translation mechanisms - they have not been extensively tested yet.
• Report bugs and/or incompatibilities

• Namespaces & dependency autoloading
• Version checking (PHP, Carbon Fields)
• Powered by Composer, Gulp and Bower
• Object caching (where available; usage examples)
• Automatic translation file (.pot) creation. See Translation.
• Shortcodes, widgets (via Carbon Fields) and custom post types (via PostTypes) examples
• Configuration registry (docs) and optional wp-config.php constants
• More to come...

Note: Gulp and Bower are optional, but handy. If you do not wish to use them, you can delete the references.

• WordPress 4.0 or higher
• PHP 5.6 or higher
• Carbon Fields 2.0 or higher (see the wiki section Carbon Fields for more info).

If you need tips on installing Node.js, Composer, Gulp & Bower, see Installing Dependencies.

1. Clone repository to plugins
2. Change the four variables in package.json
3. Run npm install; gulp rename; composer install

1. At command prompt, change to your wp-content/plugins directory.
2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/dmhendricks/wordpress-base-plugin.git
3. Renamed the newly created wordpress-base-plugin directory to your own plugin slug.

See the Getting Started documentation for further steps.

• Add Customizer example
• Add dynamically-created CSS/JS files based on settings
• Refactor the Plugin class for better organization and self-documentation
• Create decent documentation and perform cleanup on the wordpress-toolkit dependency
• Add phpdotenv support
• Add encrypted text field example
• Add some useful Carbon Fields CSS classes

Release changes are noted on the Releases page.

• None since release

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Carbon Fields

URL: http://carbonfields.net/
Author: htmlBurger.com
Twitter: @htmlburger
Author URI: https://htmlburger.com/
Location: London, England

WPGulp

URL: https://labs.ahmadawais.com/WPGulp/
Author: Ahmad Awais
Twitter: @mrahmadawais
Author URI: https://ahmadawais.com/
Location: Asal, Pakistan

PostTypes

URL: https://github.com/jjgrainger/PostTypes/
Author: Joe Grainger
Twitter: @jjgrainger
Author URI: https://jjgrainger.co.uk/
Location: Falmouth, England