grunt-wp-plugin

Create a WordPress plugin with grunt-init.

This is a customized version of 10up's grunt-wp-plugin, created for the personal use of me, Mark Jaquith.

I removed things I don't use (like SCSS, and LESS), and added things like:

• CoffeeScript
• CoffeeLint
• PHPUnit (with grunt watch support)
• Travis-CI
• Replacement of plugin version numbers from package.json
• WordPress.org plugins repo deployment
• Sass
• Compass
• Source maps (for CoffeeScript and Sass)
• Specification of minimum PHP and WordPress versions
• A basic plugin skeleton, using an updated WP_Stack_Plugin2 class

How do I install this?

npm install -g grunt-init
mkdir ~/.grunt-init
cd ~/.grunt-init
git clone https://github.com/markjaquith/grunt-wp-plugin.git wp-plugin

How do I use this to generate a plugin?

mkdir /path/to/wp-content/plugins/your-plugin-slug
cd /path/to/wp-content/plugins/your-plugin-slug
grunt-init wp-plugin

Then follow the prompts. Be sure to give your plugin a unique class name. e.g. MTJ_Social_Sharing_Mullet_Explosion.

How do I use this to develop my plugin?

First, make sure you have grunt-cli installed.

npm install -g grunt-cli

Then, install the local packages, from within your plugin's directory:

npm install

To process everything:

grunt

To watch for changed .coffee, .sass, and .php files (and perform the appropriate task):

grunt watch

To run PHPUnit tests:

grunt phpunit

To sync changes up to the WordPress.org SVN plugin repository:

grunt release

Or, if you want to stage the SVN directory, just do:

grunt release:prepare

Notes

• Don't forget that the version numbers in your plugin are controlled by package.json. That's the main place to update it.

• If you have more than one Sass or CoffeeScript file, you'll have to add them to various places in Gruntfile.coffee (I want to refactor this to have just one array of files in the Gruntfile, so it's more DRY).

• Note the assets directory for WordPress.org-hosted plugin banners.

• PHPUnit support requires a globally available WordPress core install, and the following to be set: export WP_TESTS_DIR=/path/to/wp/checkout/trunk/tests/phpunit/

Can I contribute?

I made this for myself, and as a learning tool for others who want to use Grunt to help with their plugin development. But if you find it useful, and think you can improve it, send me a pull request! As of this writing, I'm only going to pull in changes if I find them personally useful (i.e. don't send me a pull request to reïntigrate LESS support, because I don't use LESS).