WordPress Plugin DSL

A simple DSL (Domain-Specific Language) to generate scaffolding code for WordPress Plugins.

Contents

The DSL is defined with Xtext. An Xtend template takes care of generating an initial boilerplate version of the WordPress plugin according to the WordPress Boilerplate Project.

WordPress DSL

Right now the language supports the definition of very basic (but still useful to save time when writing boilerplate code) plugin information:

• Plugin Name
• General Options to populare the file's headers (author, author URI, description,...)
• Whether your plugin has an admin view, a public view or both
• Menu information
• Settings information

The grammar of the WordPress Plugin DSL is available in the WPDsl.xtext file. For a usage example, see the sample plugin definition in the samples folder.

WordPress Code Generator

Based on the above information, we generate a ready-to-use plugin that you can move to your WordPress installation and activate. The core plugin information is used to initialize the plugin code according to the [WordPress Boilerplate Project]. The Menu description is used to generate the corresopnding add_menu_page and add_submenu_page calls. The Settings specification uses the Settings and Options APIs to register the settings and read/update them.

The sample folder includes, as an example, the WordPress code generated from the sample plugin.

Installation

The DSL is a standard Xtext project. If you know how to use Xtext, getting stated with the WordPress DSL is straighforward. If not, I recommend you to familiarize yourself with Xtext first with this 15 min tutorial

Contribution

This is a project aimed to help in the development of my own plugins. It will grow as I detect new opportunities to automate other plugin development aspects (e.g. settings).

Contributions are welcome but as long as they remain aligned with the above goal.

License

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is licensed under the GPL v2 or later.

• This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

• This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

• A copy of the license is included in the root of the plugin’s directory. The file is named LICENSE.