The task You can register add additional Themes directories using register_theme_directory() for your WP installation. Sadly core doesn’t deliver with the same functionality for plugins. We already have MU-Plugin, Drop-Ins, Plugins and Themes. But we need more for a better file organization. Here’s the list of tasks to achieve: Add an additional plugin directory For … Read more
I’m fairly new to writing wordpress plugins, but I’ve jumped in the deep end already and I want to make sure I’m doing it “right” on my upcoming big project. I’m going to be heavily extending wordpress into a pretty big web app and want to keep my data structures as native as possible to … Read more
I’m building a plugin and I want to add bits of javascript in the admin head but only for certain admin pages. I don’t mean pages as in a WordPress page that you create yourself but rather existing admin section pages like ‘Your Profile’, ‘Users’, etc. Is there a wp function specifically for this task? … Read more
I’m wondering what the preferred method is for dealing with AJAX calls. Should one use the same plugin php file to process the POST or a separate one? Which is cleaner or safer? 1 the “safer and cleaner” way would be to use admin-ajax.php that comes with wordpress and wp_ajax hook to call your processing … Read more
This isn’t a question about how to build a WordPress plugin. Rather, what, if any, guides could be applied to how to put together the file architecture of any plugin. Some other programming languages or libraries have very controlled ways of organizing directories and files. Sometimes this is annoying and highlights the freedom that PHP … Read more
What is the recommended way of creating a page with a table, in the style of the tables showing posts or users in the admin area? I am expanding the Cache Images plugin, and it contains a table with domains and a number of images from that domain. So there is no equivalent existing table … Read more
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I am pretty new to plugin authoring and was having a hard time debuging. I used lots of echo and it is sloppy and ugly. I am sure there is a better way to do this, maybe an IDE with a debugger that I can run the entire site in including the plugin? 1 16 … Read more
I have been looking at the plugin API a bit more in depth recently and I was wondering what real differences there were between action and filter hooks. They both are events that receive data as a parameter and they seem to both be able to do the same things. Obviously I see that actions … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for WordPress Development Stack Exchange. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question Is there a good tool to analyze my rewrite rules? I always get confused with the regexes and the parameter replacements. … Read more
