Daniel Bachhuber 7:36 pm on November 8, 2017

What do you wish `wp scaffold` could do for you?

wp scaffold * presents a series of commands to help you quickly get up and running with your development project:

wp scaffold plugin generates a basic pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, complete with unit tests.
wp scaffold post-type produces a full custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept., with all of the different arguments you can change.
etc.

We’d like to make it even better! To help guide your feedback:

What basic code do you find yourself copy and pasting between WordPress projects?
Of the existing commands, are there ways you’d like to improve upon them?
What boilerplate/scaffolded code do you find most helpful in the other open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. projects you use?

Consider this an open thread: we welcome all the ideas you have.

Nate Finch 7:40 pm on November 8, 2017

wp scaffold custom-field (just a text field, I suppose that could be configured… or…)
wp scaffold meta-box (maybe this would take some flags like --image, --repeater, etc, kinda thinking ACF-like fields here.
Daniel Bachhuber 7:42 pm on November 8, 2017
Couple of existing issues to highlight:
- Scaffold Gutenberg blocks
- REST API endpoints
- Jeremy Pry 8:06 pm on November 8, 2017
  
  +1 for REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. endpoints. I would go so far as to say there should be two scaffolds: one for a simple endpoint, and one for a whole controller class.
ianjohn27 7:48 pm on November 8, 2017

It’d be great to be able to generate custom columns boilerplate functionality; it’s always the next thing I do after creating a CPT. Especially if it included the sorting functionality also. It’s always a big copy-paste then lightly customize process.
- runofthemill 9:22 pm on November 20, 2017
  
  +1 for this!
Marius L. J. 7:53 pm on November 8, 2017

The ability to run certain scaffoldings outside of WP would be fantastic!
For example when making a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, you rarely work inside the WP directory, you are more likely to have a stand alone directory for the project separate from everything else.
- Jeremy Pry 8:06 pm on November 8, 2017
  
  +1 for this
drywallbmb 8:53 pm on November 8, 2017

Super quick answer: Many of the things generatewp.com offers I’d love to see as a scaffold in wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/, such as shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site. and metaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way.. REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/. endpoints would be good to.

More thoughtful answer: Later…. 🙂
- Daniel Bachhuber 2:12 pm on November 9, 2017
  
  Just to play devil’s advocate, if generatewp.com already does those well, why include them in WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/?
  
  Would love to see a longer blog post!
  - drywallbmb 4:22 pm on November 9, 2017
    
    For the the same reason WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ includes functionality for many things the WordPress GUI admin does: they can be much more quickly and easily accomplished from the shell than from a web interface. 🙂
  - davemac 10:13 am on November 10, 2017
    
    what @drywallbmb said: Because if they are in wp-cliWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ they they become usable via command line, bash scripts, bash functions, plugins etc etc.
benoitchantre 9:21 pm on November 8, 2017

We can already scaffold _s theme, but it would be great to be able to scaffold a fork of _s.
- Daniel Bachhuber 9:26 pm on November 8, 2017
  
  Which fork? wp scaffold _s makes a remote request to https://underscores.me, so the fork would need to implement the equivalent APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. for this sort of plug and play.
Ross Wintle 11:07 am on November 9, 2017

Immediate thoughts:

1) Could you scaffold a theme from a given GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org? Clone it, find the style.css and replace the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. info, put it in the right directory, activate if required. Or is that likely to fail too often?

2) A --git-init flag that does what it says on the tin – you could add a --git-remote=<url> that configures a remote origin repo to push to as well?

3) I’d love a decent Webpack preset for theme-building. Roots/Sage is too heavy for my liking, but _s has nothing. But I think this is covered by 1) – I’d discover something and create my own defaults in a repo and want to clone that somehow using WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/.
Fugu Design 2:04 pm on November 9, 2017

WidgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress theme to the user., ShortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site., MetaboxMetabox A post metabox is a draggable box shown on the post editing screen. Its purpose is to allow the user to select or enter information in addition to the main post content. This information should be related to the post in some way.… every proposal of generatewp.com
gziolo 2:51 pm on November 9, 2017

WordPress 4.9 release is about to bring improved experience for code editing as explained here. One of the ingredients is linting for a few types of files (using CSSLint, JSHint, HTMLHint, and JSONLint). It would be nice to make it available as part of pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party scaffolding, too.

Another idea I’d like to share is to provide reusable scripts (on npm package that exposes all npm scripts) at least for JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. part as described in this comment. This pattern is already present in the JavaScript community and it would simplify maintenance of plugins.
Daniel Bachhuber 5:50 pm on November 9, 2017

One of the ingredients is linting for a few types of files (using CSSLint, JSHint, HTMLHint, and JSONLint). It would be nice to make it available as part of pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party scaffolding, too.

💯 I’m always copy-pasting these from elsewhere.
Bernhard Kau 10:56 am on November 15, 2017

wp scaffold --translation for post-type, taxonomy, etc. Every time I create a new post type or taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies., I have to manually create a German translation file for it. Most of the strings are always the same, but some contain the singular or plural name of the post type or taxonomy.

For German such a translation would usually not be perfect, but a good starting point. We might even left placeholders in the translated strings, so developers still have to decide how to replace them. But it would speed up the translation process a lot.
gresakg 9:26 am on July 2, 2020

Some kind of metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-box/custom fields scaffolding would be greatly appreciated.

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