By using a class, everything inside the class does not need globally unique naming prefixes, solving clashing issues with other plugins, themes and wordpress itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUT, in PHP a class has to be contained in a single file, you can’t split a class across multiple files.<\/em><\/strong> You can create new classes in each of your additional files and have them extend your main class, but there’s a complexity overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You also can’t include a file inside a class definition. You can include a file inside a class function, but that doesn’t achieve a class wide include.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you omit public, private or protected or a function, ‘public’ is the default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creating a plugin inside a class By using a class, everything inside the class does not need globally unique naming prefixes, solving clashing issues with other plugins, themes and wordpress itself. BUT, in PHP a class has to be contained in a single file, you can’t split a class across multiple files. You can create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-create-your-own-plugin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}An example plugin class<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\/\/**************************************\n\/\/**************************************\n\/\/********** OUR PLUGIN CLASS **********\n\/\/**************************************\n\/\/**************************************\n\/\/(By using a class, everything inside the class does not need globally unique naming prefixes, solving clashing issues with other plugins, themes and wordpress itself)\nclass MyPluginClassUniqueName\n{\n\n \/\/*********************************\n \/\/*********************************\n \/\/********** CONSTRUCTOR **********\n \/\/*********************************\n \/\/*********************************\n public function __construct()\n {\n\n \/\/----- ADD JAVASCRIPT AND CSS FOR ADMIN SCREENS -----\n add_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', array($this,'OurEnqueueScriptsAdmin')); \/\/Array used with $this as there isn't an instantiated object of the class yet when the server hits this code\n\n \/\/----- ADD JAVASCRIPT AND CSS FOR FRONT-END DISPLAY -----\n add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', array($this,'OurEnqueueScripts')); \/\/Array used with $this as there isn't an instantiated object of the class yet when the server hits this code\n \n }\n \n \/\/********************************************************\n \/\/********************************************************\n \/\/********** ENQUEUE SCRIPTS AND STYLES - ADMIN **********\n \/\/********************************************************\n \/\/********************************************************\n \/\/ This is an example of enqueuing a Javascript file and a CSS file for use on the editor \n public function OurEnqueueScriptsAdmin()\n {\n\n $Screen = get_current_screen();\n \/\/if (($Screen->base == 'post') && ($Screen->post_type == 'my_custom_post_type')) \/\/Only load the files on the relevant screen, e.g. the editor for a \"my_custom_post_type\" custom post type\n \/\/{\n \/\/ wp_enqueue_script('my-plugin-unique-name-my-js-file', plugins_url('js\/my-js-file.js', __FILE__), array('jquery'), '1.0', true); \/\/Make sure you are including the relevant dependencies (e.g. jquery)\n \/\/ wp_enqueue_style('my-plugin-unique-name-my-css-file', plugins_url('css\/my-css-file.css', __FILE__), null, '1.0');\n \/\/}\n }\n\n \/\/************************************************\n \/\/************************************************\n \/\/********** ENQUEUE SCRIPTS AND STYLES **********\n \/\/************************************************\n \/\/************************************************\n \/\/ This is an example of enqueuing a JavaScript file and a CSS file for use on the front end display\n public function OurEnqueueScripts()\n {\n \/\/wp_enqueue_script('my-plugin-unique-name-my-js-file', plugins_url('js\/my-js-file.js', __FILE__), array('jquery'), '1.0', true); \/\/Make sure you are including the relevant dependencies (e.g. jquery)\n \/\/wp_enqueue_style('my-plugin-unique-name-my-css-file', plugins_url('css\/my-css-file.css', __FILE__), null, '1.0');\n }\n \n \n} \/\/class MyPluginClassUniqueName\n\n\/\/global $MyPluginClassUniqueName; \/\/<<Only needed if your want the plugins to be instantiated globally (referenced elsewhere)\n$MyPluginClassUniqueName = new MyPluginClassUniqueName(); \/\/Create an instance of our plugin class\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nDefault visibility<\/h4>\n\n\n\n