• Firdaus Zahari. Speed Up Plugin Development Using the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Part 1. SitePoint, 2015.
  • Helpful article that talks about the structure of the WPPB, unfortunately, doesn’t go further than this into actually developing a plugin using WPPB.
• Firdaus Zahari. The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Part 2: Developing a Plugin. sitepoint, 2015.
• WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Tutorial (code repo). 2019.
• WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Powered.
• Adding WordPress Autoload to Plugin Boilerplate. 2018.
• How to Create a WordPress Plugin Using the WPPB Boilerplate – Including a Beautiful Settings Page. knowboard, 2019.

Basic File Structure

• admin – Code that is only used on the admin side of the site.
  • css
  • js
  • partials
• includes – Code that is used on both the admin and public sides.
  • class-plugin-name.php – The core class for the plugin.
    • Used to keep plugin name and version.
    • Loads dependencies, including those in the other class-plugin-* files.
  • class-plugin-name-activator.php – Used when you need to perform an action upon plugin activation.
  • class-plugin-name-deactivator.php – Used when you need to perform an action upon plugin deactivation.
  • class-plugin-name-loader.php – Orchestrates the hooks of the plugin.
    • $actions and $filters – where the various hooks are stored.
    • add_action()
    • add_filter()
    • The hooks added through the above classes will be registered by the class run().
  • class-plugin-name-i18n.php – Defines internationalization functionality.
  • class-plugin-name-admin.php – Defines all hooks for the admin area.
  • class-plugin-name-plugin.php – Defines all hooks for the public side of site.
• languages – Language files.
• public – Code that is only used on the public side.
  • css
  • js
  • partials
• index.php – Used to keep folks from browsing the directory when published to the web.
• plugin-name.php – The initial file loaded by the plugin which then loads other files within the plugin.
• uninstall.php – What should be done when the plugin is deleted, e.g. removing data, cleaning up files.