WordPress-Functionality-Plugin-Skeleton

The skeleton for a WordPress functionality plugin. Contains a few common functions, and can be easily extended.

Features

• Redirects outbound e-mail from staging/development servers to the site administrator, so that users don't see tests or other unwanted messages.
• Blocks customized plugins from being accidentally upgraded (which would overwrite the customizations).
• Adds a flag in the footer output for an external monitoring service to check with a content sensor.
• Prevent clickjacking for all front-end pages, with the option to exclude specific pages that should be framed.

Installation

• cd /var/www/vhosts/example.com/content/plugins
• git clone https://github.com/iandunn/WordPress-Functionality-Plugin-Skeleton.git plugin-slug
• cd plugin-slug
• git remote rm origin
• git rm README.md
• Update WordPress plugin headers
• Reset version number to 0.1
• Find/replace name
• git mv filenames to match new name
• Update the values of the $customizedPlugins array
• Update the value of the PRODUCTION_SERVER_NAME constant to match your production server name (e.g., "www.example.org")

TODO

• Disable PHPass compatability mode and increases passes
  • http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022
  • If patch is applied, set constant
  • Until then, call $wp_hasher = new PasswordHash( 10, false ); before WP does
    • 10 instead of 8, false to let PHPass use Blowfish or DES
    • Does increasing # of passes break existing passwords, or does it gracefully upgrade?
• Configuration management
  • cron job runs once an hour, make sure all core/plugin/theme settings are what they should be
  • same reasons as lamp stack config mangement
  • great for documentation and deployment
  • handle single options and serialized/array
  • core
    • search engine off for dev, on for prod
    • comments off
    • look for more defaults
  • this should maybe/probably be it's own plugin
• Add filter to make default pagination value 100 instead of 20
  • http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic/increase-default-pagination-value?replies=1#post-23781
  • wplisttable class getpageitems method has $option filter, but not $default
    • custom on $default doesn't work anyway. need to dig deeper. maybe defaults set in db on install?
    • create core ticket if needed
• Move plugin update block message to external view
• Turn off admin bar for front-end
  • or at least for my user account
• Check if plugin update blocker stops wp-cli from updating. If not, add warning.
  • i think it does, but double check
• Bring in best practices, coding standards, etc from plugin skeleton, but keep this lightweight
• Add IDDescribeVar?
  • add wrapper function so don't have to $describe->describe();
    • describe(), or maybe just desc(), iddesc(), etc
  • remove github repo

License

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.

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