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About this plugin

WordPress Plugin Skeleton is not a real WordPress plugin: it has been created to regroup some of the best practices in plugin development for WordPress.

You can still install it on a WordPress powered site, it won't break anything and will provide some functionnalities (but not very useful...).

Functionnalities

This plugin provides sample code for these functionnalities of WordPress plugins:

• table(s) creation in database
• cron job scheduling with manual activation in admin panel
• localization (currently French and English are supported, but it's only an example)
• custom post type creation
• custom taxonomy creation
• application of an existing taxonomy on a custom post type
• AJAX calls
  • on front (click on a post content)
  • on admin (click on a page's main content)
• shortcode support with:
  • attributes support
  • tinyMCE plugin for displaying a button
  • front display
• settings page creation with:
  • two examples fields (select and radio)
  • link to this page displayed in 'Plugins' page
• widget creation:
  • displays a list of custom posts
  • has a cache system

To come

With WordPress 3.3, we will have more options to develop our plugins. I want to continue editing this skeleton plugin with new functionnalities coming. For example, the 'WP-Pointers' would be great to implement here.

Contribute

Please feel free to send me pull requests, issues, evolution requests etc.