scribu

Juliette Reinders Folmer

Dzikri Aziz

This meta-plugin allows regular plugins to specify other plugins that they depend upon.
Example:
<pre><code>/*
Plugin Name: BuddyPress Debug
Depends: BuddyPress, Debug Bar
*/
</code></pre>
What this does:
<ul>
<li>Disables activation of BuddyPress Debug until both BuddyPress and Debug Bar are already activated.</li>
<li>When either BuddyPress or Debug Bar are deactivated, BuddyPress Debug will also be deactivated.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
= Enriching dependency information = 
 Unfortunately, very few plugins currently contain dependency information. If you’d like to enhance the information available to this plugin, you might want to install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/known-plugin-dependencies/" rel="ugc">Known Plugin Dependencies</a> plugin which acts as an add-on to this one.
</blockquote>
Links: <a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/plugin-dependencies" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin News</a> | <a href="http://scribu.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Site</a>
Development of this plugin is done <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-plugin-dependencies" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests welcome. Please see <a href="https://github.com/xwp/wp-plugin-dependencies/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a> reported there before going to the plugin forum.

Plugin Dependencies

Sean Fisher

Adding Composer dependency management to WP CLI. Allows you to recursivly install/update composer packages inside of all of your WordPress plugins and themes.
<h3>What is this using?</h3>
This package uses a great piece of software called <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI</a>. It provides a command line interface for WordPress management. We are a plugin providing Composer management inside of WP CLI.
<h3>What’s Composer?</h3>
It’s the greatest thing to happen to the web since GIFs, Drop Shadows and dancing cats. Composer is a dead simple JSON-based dependency manager for PHP. For more information, check out <a href="http://getcomposer.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://getcomposer.org/</a>.
<h3>So this is complete Composer support?</h3>
No, not exactly! Sadly, I’m building this out and I’m trying to make some sweet WP-CLI and Composer integration. But for now, we only support a few command:
<ul>
<li>install</li>
<li>update</li>
<li>diagnose</li>
<li>help</li>
<li>status</li>
</ul>
If you’d love to help out, please help! Make a pull request and let’s get coding!
<h3>How do I build Composer Management inside of my plugin?</h3>
Simple really! You just create a simple <code>composer.json</code> file like you would with any Composer project. From there, wp-composer will interface with each plugin/theme that has composer support and it will generate the autoload files, too!
Just include something like this inside your main plugin file:
<pre><code>require(__DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php');
</code></pre>
It’s that simple.

WP Composer

Adding Composer dependency management to WP CLI.

Plugin Dependencies vs WP Composer