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Plugin Base Skeleton

I got tired working on plugins and writing the same code snippets all over again, looking in the same old tutorial sites or my favorite WP 3 Plugin Dev book. So I released a startup script for plugins – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dx-plugin-base/ .

It contains most of the important snippets required for every plugin – registration of custom post types or taxonomies, registering activation and deactivation hooks, admin pages, metaboxes. I’m going to add widget/shortcode registration with some samples. This would make it easier to use it as a new plugin startup script and save some time about it.

I also brainstorm on the idea of making it hookable with parameters so all functions are dynamic and the script could be extended directly with inheritance or composition. Still I need to think more generally whether it would be practical and doable for all functions.


Mario Peshev is a serial martech entrepreneur, global business advisor, angel investor, and author, famous for launching a top 20 enterprise WordPress consultancy and authoring the modern startup formation book, “MBA Disrupted.”

His digital footprint includes 25 years of creating and scaling technical solutions, building and growing digital teams, starting and growing companies from zero to seven figures, acquiring and selling assets and businesses, and investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.

Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training activities for organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are references in over 30 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.


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