tools/wordpress-plugin-header-generator

WordPress Plugin Header Generator

WordPress Plugin Header Generator is a tool that automatically generates the header information required for WordPress plugins.

Plugin name

The one header that is not optional. WordPress scans only the top level of a plugin folder for it, so this block belongs in the main file and nowhere else.

Plugin URI

The plugin's own page, not the author's. It also has to be unique — WordPress.org rejects a URI already claimed by another plugin.

Version

Yours. Bumping it is what tells WordPress an update exists.

Plugin description

One or two sentences, shown on the Plugins screen.

Author name

Shown in the details panel.

Author URL

Linked from the author's name. Needs the scheme.

License

Anything distributed on WordPress.org has to be GPL-compatible.

License URI

The licence's full text. Reviewers check this resolves.

Text domain

Has to match the plugin's folder name for WordPress.org translations to load — this is the one place the convention is a requirement rather than a habit.

Domain path

Where your .mo files live, relative to the folder. Only needed when they are not in the root.

Requires WordPress at least

Older installs are told they cannot run this rather than being allowed to fail halfway.

Requires PHP

Checked before any of your code is loaded, so a host on an older PHP gets a notice instead of a fatal.

Requires plugins

Comma-separated WordPress.org slugs, added in WordPress 6.5. The plugin cannot be activated until they are.

Update URI

WordPress 5.8. Set this when the plugin is not on WordPress.org, so an unrelated plugin with the same slug there cannot overwrite it.

Network

Multisite only: the plugin can be network-activated and cannot be enabled per site.

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