Re-Learning WordPress Development

Gutenberg block development – is the newish development environment for everything, including plugins. The wp-env tool spins up a docker container running WP

The wp-env.json config file must be tweaked to run in my local server. I set port to 8887.

Blocks

Use npx @wordpress/create-block slug –wp-env to create a new block.

Start the server with wp-env start.

Plugins

To create a plugin, see the @wordpress/env package page for docs. The wp-env.json file will be:

{
	"core": null,
        "port": 8887,
	"plugins": [ "." ]
}

I’m not sure how to scaffold a plugin with the CLI without a wordpress directory for reference (and I suspect it’s complicated because the core is installed somewhere else), so here’s a plugin template:

<?php
/**
 * Plugin Name:       PLG
 * Description:       Example block scaffolded with Create Block tool.
 * Version:           0.1.0
 * Requires at least: 6.7
 * Requires PHP:      7.4
 * Author:            The WordPress Contributors
 * License:           GPL-2.0-or-later
 * License URI:       https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 * Text Domain:       plg
 *
 * @package Plg
 */

Start the server with wp-env start.

Local WP Installation

Maybe there’s a way to use the local core files, and develop within there. This might be useful for some situation.