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How to Create a PSR-4 Structure WordPress Plugin
PSR-4 enhances WordPress plugin organization and readability, utilizing autoloading for intuitive class access. This tutorial demonstrates setting up a fictive plugin, incorporating Composer for autoloading, adhering to WordPress coding standards, and creating admin options.
How to Activate a Plugin Automatically When Your Plugin is Activated
This tutorial explains how to programmatically activate another plugin when your plugin is activated in WordPress, including setup instructions, functions, and handling multisite environments.
How to Customize Your Top-Level Admin Menu Label and Icon
Creating a custom top-level menu in WordPress is straightforward. Customize its looks and functionality with code, CSS, icons, and badges, enhancing your admin menu experience.
What Are PHP Traits and How to Use Them In Plugin Development
PHP Traits provide a streamlined approach to code reuse in WordPress plugin development, allowing for efficient sharing of functionality without the complexities of inheritance, promoting a clean, DRY codebase.
How to Generate a Block Manifest to Improve Block Performance
In WordPress 6.8, block manifests were enhanced to simplify block registration and boost performance. This tutorial guides you on creating block manifests, which consolidate block data for efficient processing. By following simple steps, you can improve the performance of your plugins and ensure smooth block functionality.
How to Enable Plugin Dependencies for Your WordPress Plugins
Plugin dependencies are a neat way for a child to reference its parent plugin. This tutorial goes over how to set them, and what it looks like to the end user.
What Are MU Plugins, and How Do You Create Them?
MU-plugins are unique WordPress plugins that automatically execute without requiring activation, typically used for essential site functionality. They reside in the "mu-plugins" folder within "wp-content" and cannot be deactivated or edited via the admin. This tutorial details their usage, creation, and potential risks, especially in multisite installations.
How to Create a WordPress Playground Blueprint For Your Plugin Live Preview
Blueprints for the WordPress Playground are simple in concept, but it's often difficult to know where to start. I walk you through setting up one of my plugins for the Playground
Namespaces in WordPress Plugins: What They Are and Why They Are Useful
Namespaces help prevent collisions amongst other WordPress plugins. This tutorial explains what namespaces are and why you should use them.
How to Create a WordPress Plugin Zip File Using Command Line – Two Approaches
Summary In this article, I show you two ways to create WordPress plugin zip files from the command line: using @wordpress/scripts with package.json, and using Grunt. To create a zip file using @wordpress/scripts, you would run the command in your…