My talk from WordCamp Lancaster 2014. Things to implement when preparing a plugin for public release.

1. SO YOU WANT TO
BUILD AND RELEASE
A PLUGIN…
Ryan Duff
WordCamp Lancaster 2014

2. ABOUT ME
•
Long time WordPress user
•
Plugin Developer
•
Meetup Organizer

3. A BIT OF PLUGIN
HISTORY

4. my-hacks.php

5. VERSION 1.2
(May 22, 2004)

6. Plugin API

7. THINGS TO
CONSIDER

8. YOUR CODE

9. FILTERS

10. apply_filters( $tag, $value, $var ... )
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/apply_filters

11. EXAMPLE
$query_args = array(
'post_type' => 'books',
'posts_per_page' => 5,
'author' => 3
);
$books = new WP_Query( apply_filters( 'wclanc_books_query', $query_args )
);

12. ACTIONS

13. do_action( $tag, $arg_a, $arg_b, $etc );
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_action

14. EXAMPLE
do_action( 'wclanc_books_before' );
echo '<div class="wclanc_books">';
while( $books->have_posts() ) : $books->the_post()
echo '<div class="wclanc_book">';
do_action( 'wclanc_before_book_title', get_the_ID() );
echo '<h3 class="wclanc_book_title">' . get_the_title() . '</h3>';
do_action( 'wclanc_after_book_title', get_the_ID() );
echo '</div>';
endwhile;
echo '</div>';
do_action( 'wclanc_books_after' );

15. INTERNATIONALIZATION

16. EXAMPLE
/*
* Plugin Name: i18n Test
* Author: Ryan Duff
* Text Domain: wclanc-i18n
*/
$text = __( ‘This is a test', ‘wclanc-i18n' );
_e( ‘This test will echo', ‘wclanc-i18n' );
https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers

17. PLUGIN SETTINGS
http://themeoptions.wordpress.com/

18. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
•
Code style
•
Documentation
•
Errors

19. PLUGIN LICENSE

20. COMMON LICENSES
•
GPL v2/v3
•
MIT (X11)
•
Apache License v2
•
WTFPL v2
1) http://wordpress.org/plugins/about/
2) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

21. PLUGIN HOSTING

22. •
WordPress.org
•
GitHub
•
Both?

23. QUESTIONS?

24. RYAN DUFF
RYAN@FUSIONIZED.COM
@RYANCDUFF