Wordpress Plugin Templates v2.0

by Fire G on Jun. 8th in Coding, Freebies, PHP, Plugins, Wordpress with 10 comments.

Not that long ago I released my Wordpress Plugin Templates and they were greatly received by you all. Through this wide spread attraction, it was inevitable that a flaw would be found and some improvements be suggested. So I took these suggestions and an idea I had, and updated these templates to allow for less editing of the template files and faster plugin development all around.

Download the Version2 Templates

Improvements

New Folder Structure
Easy removal of Admin page creation
Quickly rename/alter plugin attributes with global variables in main.php
Automatically gather all plugin files from the "features" directory

How to Use / What to Edit

In "main.php" there are 3 variables that you must edit for your plugin: $plugin_name, $plugin_ref, $plugin_abv (if you're unsure of how to fill those variables, the default values will clarify).

The only other thing you need to do is edit the admin-page.php and place all your main plugin files inside the "features" folder so that they will automatically be included into main.php (support files can be placed where ever).
Note: ANY file with a .php extension inside the "features" folder will be called into the main.php file.

The Structure

/admin

add-admin-page.php
admin-page.php

/features

purpose.php

main.php

About the author: Fire G

Hey, I'm the founder of Fire Studios, and thus, have my hands in everything that goes on here at FS. I manage the content, moderate the comments, design everything, code everything, provides a lot of articles, host the official podcast FS-Air, and run/manage most of the other sites in the FI family. Often times I'll come to be working on so many things that I hardly accomplish much, but that's what makes me who I am.

10 Reader Comments

BobMarche
June 10th

Thanks for the useful info. It's so interesting
Flex Guy
June 11th

very nice article…keep on the good work
Tim
June 15th

Very cool, I am doing some research on this topic and was glad to find your example files, I have been searching high and low for a decent plugin example that deals with all the newer file systems in version 2.8, I will keep up with your information, thanks
Tai
July 26th

Thank you for the very useful template!
BTW, files in v2 seem same as v1's.
Fire G
July 26th

@Tai: They may appear so, but in V2 there's more security and a new way of including files into the plugin.
Tai
July 26th

Thank you, Fire G.
But I tried "diff wp-plugin-templates/ wp-plugin-templates-v2/", and it output nothing. So could you check into v2.zip just in case?
Fire G
July 26th

@Tai: You were right. I've fixed the Zip, don't know how it got like that though, it was right when I posted... Thanks though.
Tai
July 26th

Thanks again Fire G., for quick responses and the template!
I really appreciate it!
SmashingWebsites
January 22nd

Way cool! "Features" plugin directory is excellent idea. Under what license can we use this? Thanks!
Fire G
January 22nd

@SmashingWebsites: Thanks. It's free for anyone to use or modify.