Minimum Fields
/* * Plugin Name: YOUR PLUGIN NAME */
Header Fields
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Plugin Name: ( required ) The name of your plugin, which will be displayed in the Plugins list in the WordPress Admin. -
Plugin URI: The home page of the plugin, which should be a unique URL, preferably on your own website. This must be unique to your plugin. You cannot use a WordPress.org URL here. -
Description: A short description of the plugin, as displayed in the Plugins section in the WordPress Admin. Keep this description to fewer than 140 characters. -
Version: The current version number of the plugin, such as 1.0 or 1.0.3. -
Requires at least: The lowest WordPress version that the plugin will work on. -
Requires PHP: The minimum required PHP version. -
Author: The name of the plugin author. Multiple authors may be listed using commas. -
Author URI: The author’s website or profile on another website, such as WordPress.org. -
License: The short name (slug) of the plugin’s license (e.g. GPLv2). More information about licensing can be found in the WordPress.org guidelines . -
License URI: A link to the full text of the license (e.g. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html ). -
Text Domain: The gettext text domain of the plugin. More information can be found in the Text Domain section of the How to Internationalize your Plugin page. -
Domain Path: The domain path lets WordPress know where to find the translations. More information can be found in the Domain Path section of the How to Internationalize your Plugin page. -
Network: Whether the plugin can only be activated network-wide. Can only be set to true , and should be left out when not needed. -
Update URI: Allows third-party plugins to avoid accidentally being overwritten with an update of a plugin of a similar name from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. For more info read related dev note . -
Requires Plugins : A comma-separated list of WordPress.org-formatted slugs for its dependencies, such as my-plugin ( my-plugin/my-plugin.php is not supported). It does not support commas in plugin slugs. For more info read the related dev note .
/* * Plugin Name: My Basics Plugin * Plugin URI: https://example.com/plugins/the-basics/ * Description: Handle the basics with this plugin. * Version: 1.10.3 * Requires at least: 5.2 * Requires PHP: 7.2 * Author: John Smith * Author URI: https://author.example.com/ * License: GPL v2 or later * License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html * Update URI: https://example.com/my-plugin/ * Text Domain: my-basics-plugin * Domain Path: /languages * Requires Plugins: my-plugin, yet-another-plugin */
/** * Plugin Name * * @package PluginPackage * @author Your Name * @copyright 2019 Your Name or Company Name * @license GPL-2.0-or-later * * @wordpress-plugin * Plugin Name: Plugin Name * Plugin URI: https://example.com/plugin-name * Description: Description of the plugin. * Version: 1.0.0 * Requires at least: 5.2 * Requires PHP: 7.2 * Author: Your Name * Author URI: https://example.com * Text Domain: plugin-slug * License: GPL v2 or later * License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt * Update URI: https://example.com/my-plugin/ * Requires Plugins: my-plugin, yet-another-plugin */