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Welcome to the news-plugin wiki!

A simple, lightly opinionated WordPress Plugin for Choctaw News Post Types.

Here's a quick overview of what's going on:

• This plugin uses 2 CPTs, News and Boilerplates, to handle news posts, alongside ACF Pro and Bootstrap.
• This plugin uses the ChoctawNation\News namespace to prevent naming conflicts, and you should see both "ChoctawNation" as a @package tag and "News" as a @subpackage in the files' header comment blocks.
• This plugin, like others, is initialized with the Plugin_Loader class.
• Registers 2 Image Sizes:
  • choctaw-news-preview (1392x784)
  • choctaw-news-single (2592x1458)

Dependencies

This plugin assumes the following are already loaded in a theme:

• Bootstrap
• ACF Pro

The Post Types

• Inits cpts (news & boilerplates) with prefixes (i.e. choctaw-boilerplates).
• Adds the News to default WordPress search query
• Inits templates (archive and single) with a template part for the post preview.
• Templates can be overriden in theme folder.
  • Files must be located at theme/templates/choctaw-file-name.php where "file-name" matches the files in the plugin's templates folder

The Plugin Logic/Loader Classes (an overview)

• Each class calls its parent with require_once
• The final class Plugin_Loader:
  • Calls a parent::__construct() because it's grandparent, Post_Type_Builder requires it.
    • The grandparent class checks if ACF is installed and throws an error if its not (and also kills PHP).
  • Calls all filters and action callback functions, even though they may be defined in a (grand)parent class.