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Kevin Powell - Community•3mo ago
roelof

Best place to get help with making wordpress themes and/or plugins

Hello, In the future I want to learn to make wordpress themes and/o plugins. In the past I tried the wordpress forums and the stackexchange site but get there almost none answers. is there a better place where I can ask questions when im stuck with wordpress development ?
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Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell•3mo ago
I'm not a part of it myself, but I know the person who runs it, and it's definitely active... wish the group wasn't on facebook, but they have lots of resources and other things too https://theadminbar.com/
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roelof
roelofOP•3mo ago
Thanks I will try to be a member of that facebook page
curiousmissfox
curiousmissfox•3mo ago
Plug-in on wp is basically an app , with lots of PHP and often use of wp methods - the index.php at the root is whrre you define the plug-in info. The only required line is the name 
PHP 
/*
 * Plugin Name: YOUR PLUGIN NAME
 */ 
PHP 
/*
 * Plugin Name: YOUR PLUGIN NAME
 */
But there are more accepted fields ( from Header Requirements 
php 
/*
 * Plugin Name:       My Basics Plugin
 * Plugin URI:        https://example.com/plugins/the-basics/
 * Description:       Handle the basics with this plugin.
 * Version:           1.10.3
 * Requires at least: 5.2
 * Requires PHP:      7.2
 * Author:            John Smith
 * Author URI:        https://author.example.com/
 * License:           GPL v2 or later
 * License URI:       https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 * Update URI:        https://example.com/my-plugin/
 * Text Domain:       my-basics-plugin
 * Domain Path:       /languages
 * Requires Plugins:  my-plugin, yet-another-plugin
 */ 
php 
/*
 * Plugin Name:       My Basics Plugin
 * Plugin URI:        https://example.com/plugins/the-basics/
 * Description:       Handle the basics with this plugin.
 * Version:           1.10.3
 * Requires at least: 5.2
 * Requires PHP:      7.2
 * Author:            John Smith
 * Author URI:        https://author.example.com/
 * License:           GPL v2 or later
 * License URI:       https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 * Update URI:        https://example.com/my-plugin/
 * Text Domain:       my-basics-plugin
 * Domain Path:       /languages
 * Requires Plugins:  my-plugin, yet-another-plugin
 */
As far as resources , the wp docs are really fleshed out . Here is the Plugin Handbook Just remember the more plugins you have , the more complicated of an environment as they all have to work together ; greater opportunity for conflict and dreaded fatal error
Samuel Sidler
WordPress Developer Resources
Header Requirements – Plugin Handbook | Developer.WordPress.org
As described in Getting Started, the main PHP file should include header comment what tells WordPress that a file is a plugin and provides…
WordPress Developer Resources
Plugin Handbook | Developer.WordPress.org
Welcome to the WordPress Plugin Developer Handbook; are you ready to jump right in to the world of WordPress plugins? The Plugin Developer…

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