An empty plugin template to start with, including the most basic necessary stuff. Take this as some kind of workshop.

Juergen Schulze

<p>STILL BETA Use this emtpy wordpress plugin template to build your own.</p>
<p>Considering all the advices given in https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin, https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages and http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/09/top-10-most-common-coding-mistakes-in-wordpress-plugins/</p>
<p>Every important point will have it’s own page to explain.</p>
<h4>Including:</h4>
<ul>
<li>multi language ability</li>
<li>uninstall routine</li>
<li>data delete routine (avoid orphaned data)</li>
<li>coding advices</li>
<li>security aspects (validating user inputs, nonces)</li>
<li>external third party stuff (Ajax, CSS, Javascript)</li>
<li>shortcode</li>
<li>WordPress scheduler (“cronjob”)</li>
<li>logfiles</li>
<li>capabilities</li>
</ul>
<h3>Remove plugin</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Delete plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<p>It’s best to use the build in delete function of wordpress. That way all the stored data will be removed and no orphaned data will stay.</p>
<h3>To do</h3>
<p>More translations. Does someone wants to help?</p>


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