A well engineered template for creating plugins using object-oriented programming practices. Uses Settings API, multisite, i18n, PHPUnit tests.

nunomorgadinho

Ana Aires

wp-unit

Enables you to create unit tests for your plugins, run and check the results in a centralized way.

Daniel Convissor

<p>Gives authors of new plugins a leg up on creating a great, easy to maintain plugin by providing a carefully designed plugin skeleton to build on. Authors of existing plugins can extract individual components and concepts for transplantation into their own projects.</p>
<ul>
<li>Clean, object-oriented design</li>
<li>PHPUnit tests</li>
<li>Admin screen uses the Settings API</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
<li>Creates a table during activation</li>
<li>Drops the table and settings during deactivation</li>
<li>Uses WordPress’ i18n and provides scripts for generating the gettext files</li>
<li>Installation instructions have a script for renaming files, classes and IDs</li>
</ul>
<p>See the FAQ section for more details about this plugin’s features.</p>
<p>Development of this plugin template happens on <a href="https://github.com/convissor/oop-plugin-template-solution" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>. Please submit <a href="https://github.com/convissor/oop-plugin-template-solution/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">bug and feature requests</a>, <a href="https://github.com/convissor/oop-plugin-template-solution/pulls" rel="nofollow ugc">pull requests</a>, <a href="https://github.com/convissor/oop-plugin-template-solution/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">wiki entries</a><br />
there. Releases are then squashed and pushed to WordPress’ <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/oop-plugin-template-solution/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugins SVN repository</a>. This division is necessary due having being chastised that “the Plugins SVN repository is a release system, not a development system.”</p>
<h4>Explanations</h4>
<p>If you want an explanation of how this “plugin” works, please see the “PHPUnit Tests for WordPress Plugins” series on my blog.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/blog/html/writing-phpunit-tests-for-wordpress-plugins-global-variables.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">Global Variables</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/blog/html/writing-phpunit-tests-for-wordpress-plugins-wp-mail.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_mail()</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/blog/html/writing-phpunit-tests-for-wordpress-plugins-wp-redirect-and-continuing-after-php-errors.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_redirect() and Expected PHP Errors</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/blog/html/writing-phpunit-tests-for-wordpress-plugins-auto-increment-id-records.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-increment ID Records</a></li>
</ul>


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