WordPress Plugin Development

Contact Plugin

Architecture explained

• index.php file is created for the perpose when user visited there wordpress website admin > plugin > current plugin section, what to show there?
  • The html present at that page is served by index.php page
  • It also help to secure other files and stop unwanted user's to accessing/vieweing them
• contact-plugin is the file which is named same as the folder name which serves the logic of the plugin
  • At start it's necessary to have a comment that specify plugin detail's so that wordpress adds that plugin in it's plugin section.

Dependencies explained

• carbon-fields-plugin is a plugin that we are using as a dependency inside our plugin, which will be allow us to easily create new plugin dashboard (i.e. page's that are linked with right side dashboard in wordpress )
  • To install this plugin in our plugin so that we can use it type -> composer require htmlburger/carbon-fields-plugin (Composer must be installed in your system. Download from here)