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Information, updates, and other posts related to my WordPress Plugin Boilerplate that serves to provide a solid foundation for building WordPress plugins.

The Latest Branch of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

March 19, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

Just shy of a month ago, I shared some information about the state of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

Specifically, I mentioned the following:

We’re working on rewriting it to be cleaner, easier to understand, and more flexible for developers of all experience.
I’ve got a small, core team of volunteers helping me out (who I greatly appreciate).
Where we’re headed with this latest version of the project.

To be honest, I’ve never been more excited about the project.

There’s a lot more coming down the pipeline that I’ll cover later in this post – I also want to clear up some fun versioning quirks that I’ve been asked about – but I wanted to give a heads up on the current state of the codebase and where you can follow along with the development as we begin to push code.

The State of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

February 28, 2014 / Tom / 0 Comments

One of the projects that I love working on the most is the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

I dig it because it’s been a resource that has helped other people, and there are a number of other contributors that are constantly working to make it even better.

Earlier this year, I had plans to begin releasing more frequent updates, but – as with the nature of employment and side projects that are done for free – the updates didn’t happen as fast as I would like.

Additionally, it was becoming clear to me that the Boilerplate was headed in a direction that was going to be more intimidating for beginners, harder to grasp for those migrating their plugins to that format, and that it was not using some of the best principles in place.

So after talking with a number of notable developers, I’ve opted to delay the release of `2.7.0` until we have something significantly better than what’s in place.

In fact, it’s going to be a near total rewrite.

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.6.1 is Now Available

November 21, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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The next version of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate is officially tagged and available for download in GitHub.

This release – although a minor improvement over the last – introduces several improvements to 2.6.0, and also marks a change in the development of the project, as well as the introduction of several things that will be coming to the Boilerplate in the next several versions.

Subscribe For Updates: The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

November 2, 2013 / Tom

With yesterday’s announcement of the latest release of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, I’ve had a number of emails, tweets, and messages how people can stay up to date with the project without having to follow the GitHub repository, or the blog.

Ultimately, I want to make sure that this Boilerplate reaches the largest number of developers both for those who wish to contribute, and for those who wish to use it as a starting place for their projects.

As such, I’ve created an opt-in mailing list to which you can subscribe.

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.6.0 is Now Available

November 1, 2013 / Tom / 0 Comments

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Today, I am absolutely stoked to announce the next major release of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate.

I discussed some of the things I’ve learned – and some of the changes that have been implemented in a recent post – but I couldn’t be happier with this release.

Some quick statistics:

The last official release was on May 17, 2013. We had one minor release in July that I opted to fold into this release and officially tag as `2.6.0`.
We’re now working to implement semantic versioning into the Boilerplate.
The milestone for `2.7.0` is already being planned.
The project now includes 241 commits and 10 contributors

This is by far the largest commit and set of changes that have gone into the Boilerplate since it has been released. You can grab it here, but read on for more details!