Plugin Composer - Wordpress plugin boilerplate

Contributors: weLabs, Mahbub

Tags: wordpress, wp-plugin, plugin-development.
Requires at least: 5.4
Tested up to: 6.2.2
Requires PHP: 7.4
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Generate wordpress plugin boilerplate having PSR4 auto-loading.

Description

You may easily generate a PSR4 auto-loading WordPress plugin by submitting a simple form. You can render the plugin composer form any where using the wlb_plugin_composer.

[wlb_plugin_composer]
// With supported attributes
[wlb_plugin_composer submit-text='Build Plugin' class="form-class"]

👉 Official Demo Link: Try out the Plugin Composer.

Gutenberg Block

A Plugin Composer block is bundled (category: Widgets). Insert it from the block inserter to render the same form a shortcode would — no shortcode markup needed.

Sidebar controls:

• Form settings — submit button label, toggles to show/hide the Include Plugin Settings? and WP VIP Support fields.
• Submit button colors — background and text color for both normal and hover states (applied via CSS variables on the form wrapper, so hover works without inline <style> injection).
• Field placeholders — override the placeholder text for any of the eight inputs (Plugin Name, Description, Requires, License, URL, Author Name/Email/URL).

The block is dynamic — it has no save output. Rendering is delegated server-side to the [wlb_plugin_composer] shortcode, so the form template, validation, and submission flow stay in one place. Every sidebar control maps to a shortcode attribute, so [wlb_plugin_composer submit-text="Go" button_bg_color="#000" show_wpvip_field="no" placeholder_plugin_name="My awesome plugin"] works identically.

Block Development:

npm install
npm run start

Build Release:

bin/build.sh

Changelog

1.5.0

• New: Gutenberg block (welabs/plugin-composer) — dynamic block that renders the existing shortcode server-side. Sidebar controls: submit button label, show/hide toggles for Include Plugin Settings? and WP VIP Support fields, submit button background/text colors (normal + hover via CSS variables), and overridable placeholders for all eight inputs.
• New: Shortcode attributes mirroring every block control — placeholder_plugin_*, show_settings_field, show_wpvip_field, button_bg_color / button_text_color / button_bg_hover_color / button_text_hover_color.
• New: vendor_namespace placeholder in PluginBuilder — rebrands WeLabs / welabs (PHP namespace, composer vendor, function prefix, CSS classes, JS strings, URLs) across the generated plugin in one shot.
• Fix: Plugin zip download was returning corrupted files when an output buffer (e.g. Redis Object Cache) or gzip handler was active. The handler now clears buffers, disables compression, sends Content-Length, and exits after streaming.

1.4.0

• Introduced WP VIP coding standard support.
• Improved form UI.

1.3.0

• Built zip filenames now include the version.
• get_template() accepts template args.

1.2.0

• React-based plugin settings scaffold with dynamic settings links and node-command injection.
• Modernized form design.