WordPress Starter Plugin

A well documented starter plugin for quick WordPress plugin development complete with inline documentation and working admin options page.

Directory Structure

• /admin/ - Plugin backend stuff.
• /functions/ - Functions and plugin operations.
• /includes/ - External third party classes and libraries.
• /languages/ - Translation files go here.
• /public/ - Front end files and functions that matter on the front end go here.
• index.php - Dummy file.
• license.txt - GPL v2
• prefix_starter-plugin.php - Main plugin file containing plugin name and other version info for WordPress.
• readme.txt - Readme for WordPress plugin repository. https://wordpress.org/plugins/files/2018/01/readme.txt
• uninstall.php - Fired when the plugin is uninstalled.

TODO

• Note: (S&R) = Search and Replace by matching case.
• Plugin name: Starter Plugin (S&R)
• Plugin folder slug: starter-plugin (S&R)
• Decide on a prefix for the plugin (S&R)
• Plugin description in prefix_starter-plugin.php
• Text domain. Text domain for plugins has to be the folder name of the plugin. For eg. if your plugin is in /wp-content/plugins/abc-def/ folder text domain should be abc-def (S&R)
• Update prefix_settings_link() in \admin\basic-setup.php
• Update prefix_footer_text() in \admin\basic-setup.php
• Update prefix_add_menu_links() in \admin\admin-ui-setup.php
• Update prefix_register_settings() in \admin\admin-ui-setup.php
• Update UI format and settings in \admin\admin-ui-render.php
• Update uninstall.php
• Update readme.txt
• Update PREFIX_VERSION_NUM in prefix_starter-plugin.php (keep this line for future updates)