Plugin Requirements

[jonathanbossenger]

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• Content type (Course, Tutorial, Online Workshop, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
• Content title: Plugin requirements
• Topic description: Introduces the basic requirements needed for a valid plugin: a PHP file with a valid plugin header. Briefly cover the rest of the possible fields in the plugin header. Introduce some plugin best practices, like the ABSPATH check.
• Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
• Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Beginner

Learning Objectives

• Describe the basic requirements for a valid WordPress plugin
• Identify all the plugin header fields
• Explain why some plugins make use of an ABSPATH check

Related Resources and Other Notes

• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/intro/what-is-a-plugin/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/header-requirements/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/best-practices/

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02.Plugin.requirements.mp4

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Great tutorial, @jonathanbossenger 👏

Not sure if this is the right place (from a Learning Pathways perspective), but it's worth mentioning somewhere that a plugin can also be used to create a block.

[jonathanbossenger]

Not sure if this is the right place (from a Learning Pathways perspective), but it's worth mentioning somewhere that a plugin can also be used to create a block.

So I do cover this in the first lesson of the Introduction to developing blocks module.

[ironnysh]

Oops, haven't watched this one yet 😄

[jonathanbossenger]

https://learn.wordpress.org/lesson/plugin-requirements/