LaraPress - Wordpress Plugin Boilerplate in laravel 5.5.* flavour.

Requirements

• PHP >=7.0
• WORDPRESS >= 4.x.x

Installation

composer create-project yhshanto/larapress plugin-name

After install larapress project open plugin-name.php file and edit following as your need.

/*
 * Plugin Name:       Your Plugin name
 * Plugin URI:        your-plugin-url
 * Description:       This is a short description
 * Version:           1.0.0
 * Author:            Plugin Author
 * Author URI:        Author Url
 * License:           GPL-2.0+
 * License URI:       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
 * Text Domain:       Text Domain
*/

Usage

Database

To Use Wordpress Database like Laravel Eloquent Style, First Create A class in plugin directory which extend Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model Class.

Example plugin/Post.php

<?php
namespace Plugin;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    //
}

You Can Use It Like Plugin\Post::all() Which return all post from wordpress database.

To learn More about Laravel Eloquent. Go To Doc

Blade View

LaraPress also include Laravel Blade Template Engine To Compile And Render View.

All view file must be store in resources/views folder.

Example: resources/views/welcome.blade.php

<h1>
    {{ $heading }}
</h1>
<p>
    {!! $description !!}
</p>

You Can Use This View By view( $view, $data = array(), $return = false ) function.

Example: Echo This View

$data['heading'] = 'Larapress';
$data['description'] = 'Write Something Here';

view('welcome', $data);

Or To return

$data['heading'] = 'Larapress';
$data['description'] = 'Write Something Here';

$view = view('welcome', $data, true);

To learn More about Laravel Blade Template Engine. Go To Doc

Wordpress Action Hook

Wordpress makes life easier by its hooking functionality. LaraPress brings a more easier and formatted way to working with wordpress action and filter hook.

In Larapress you can create special Hook class that uses for hooking.

All hooks class must be store in plugin/Hooks folder.

A Hook Example: plugin/Hooks/Auto.php

<?php
namespace Plugin\Hooks;

class Auto extends Hook
{
	
	function boot()
	{

		$this->loader->add_filter('the_title', 'title');

	}

	function title($title)

	{

		return 'LaraPress';

	}
}

After Creating A New Hook class You Must Add it with $hooks array which located in config/plugin.php

Example: config/plugin.php $hooks Array

$hooks = array(
	'Auto'
);

The $loader property of all hook class is a object of Plugin\Lpress\Loader Class. Which have two function for hooking. Functions -

add_action( $hook, $callback, $priority = 10, $accepted_args = 1 )

add_filter( $hook, $callback, $priority = 10, $accepted_args = 1 )