📦 WordPress plugin installer / activator

Simplifies the installation and activation of WordPress plugins.

Highlights

• Based on WooCommerce installation and activation process.
• Automatically updates plugin and database schema versions.
• Handles database table creation and updates (Schema enforcement).
• Provides WP-CLI commands for manual updates, and database table creation / verification.
• Easily extendable

Installation

We officially support installing via composer only

Via composer

composer require oblak/wp-plugin-installer

Basic Usage

Base_Plugin_Installer is an abstract singleton class which can be extended to create a plugin installer class. The class is responsible for installing and activating the plugin, and updating the plugin and database schema versions. You need to extend it and implement the set_defaults() method, which is responsible for setting the default values for the class.

If your plugin needs non-wp database tables, you need to implement the get_schema() method, and set the has_db_tables property to true, so that the installer can create and update the tables.

Class depends on Action Scheduler for running update callbacks in the background. If your plugin uses Action Scheduler, or depends on an another plugin, which has Action Scheduler, you can skip the activation step.

1. Define your installer class

<?php
namespace Vendor\My_Plugin;

use Oblak\WP\Base_Plugin_Installer;

class My_Plugin_Installer extends Base_Plugin_Installer {

  /**
   * Singleton instance
   *
   * Since we're inheriting from a singleton class, we need to define this property.
   *
   * @var My_Plugin_Installer
   */
  protected static $instance;

  /**
   * Set the installer defaults.
   */
  protected function set_defaults() {
    $this->name          = 'My Plugin'; // Plugin name.
    $this->slug          = 'my-plugin'; // Plugin slug.
    $this->version       = '1.0.0';     // Plugin version (current).
    $this->db_version    = '1.0.0';     // Database schema version (current).
    $this->has_db_tables = true;        // Does the plugin have database tables?
  }

  /**
  * Get the database schema.
  *
  * @return string The database schema.
  */
  protected function get_schema() {
    global $wpdb;

      $collate = '';

      if ( $wpdb->has_cap( 'collation' ) ) {
          $collate = $wpdb->get_charset_collate();
      }

    return
    "
    CREATE TABLE `{$wpdb->prefix}my_plugin_table` (
      ID bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
      name varchar(255) NOT NULL,
      created_at datetime NOT NULL,
      PRIMARY KEY  (ID)
    ) {$collate}
    ";
  }

}

2. Action Scheduler activation

require_once __DIR__ . 'vendor/woocommerce/action-scheduler/action-scheduler.php';

3. Include the autoload file

require_once __DIR__ . 'vendor/autoload.php';

4. Instantiate the installer class

<?php

use Vendor\My_Plugin\My_Plugin_Installer;

My_Plugin_Installer::get_instance()->init();

Advanced Usage

Covered in the documentation.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome from everyone. We have contributing guidelines to help you get started.

Credits and special thanks

This project is maintained by Oblak Studio.
Special thanks goes to good people at Automattic for creating WooCommerce on whose installer this one is based upon, and Action Scheduler, which enables us to run update callbacks in the background.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0.