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Background

Goals

The goals of this plugin are:

• to support modular plugin-based WordPress development
• to consolidate best practice techniques
• to create a familiar, standardised interface for plugin development
• to allow the boilerplate code to be maintained independently of the plugin functionality
• to allow different versions of the boilerplate to exist, to reduce maintenance time
• to permit a focus on plugin functionality during development

History

This is an evolution of several other approaches:

Yeoman Plugin Generator

• generates a WordPress plugin from a Yeoman template
• difficult to track evolving changes to boilerplate code

Base theme

• WordPress parent theme
• bundles common functionality
• functionality too tightly coupled

3rd party class

• someone else's code
• not intuitive
• dependent on an external maintainer