WordPress Frameworks

Last Updated on February 19, 2021 by Neil Murray

Plugin Boilerplate & Frameworks

Chris Ferdinandi – npm Build Tool Boilerplate

Gary Jones – WordPress plugin boilerplate
– includes a few extras such as PHP coding standards and PHPUnit tests, which are pretty helpful

Devin Vinson – WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
WordPress Plugin Boilerplate Generator

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate was started in 2011 by Tom McFarlin. In March of 2015 the project was handed over by Tom to Devin Vinson.

Bacon – framework for building plugins in WordPress
Plugin Engine by CodeBard – advanced OOP plugin engine

Plugin Tools

Gamajo Template Loader

WordPress Framework Plugins

Pods Framework – a content development framework for WordPress
CMB2 – a developer’s toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress

MVC based WordPress App Frameworks

Themosis framework – A WordPress framework – Build enterprises solutions with WordPress (Laravel based)
Herbert – The WordPress Plugin Framework -A structured and standardised approach to building plugins (Abandoned)

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