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In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program. When a program supports plug-ins, it enables customization.[1]
Most syntax is transformable by Babel. In rarer cases (if the transform isn't implemented yet, or there isn't a default way to do so), you can use plugins such as @babel/plugin-syntax-bigint to only allow Babel to parse specific types of syntax. Or you want to preserve the source code because you only want Babel to do code analysis or codemods.
Drupal contains many different plugins, of different types. For example, 'Field widget' is a plugin type, and each different field widget type is a plugin. The admin user may select from the list of field widget plugins to set the widget that a field uses.
The D8 plugin system provides a set of guidelines and reusable code components to allow developers to expose pluggable components within their code and (as needed) support managing these components through the user interface.
The plugin type is the central controlling class that defines how the plugins of this type will be discovered and instantiated. The type will describe the central purpose of all plugins of that type, e.g., cache backends, image actions, blocks, etc.
Plugin Derivatives allow a single plugin to act in place of many. This is useful for situations where user entered data might have an impact on available plugins. For example, if menus are placed on screen using a plugin, then when the site administrator creates a new menu, that menu must be available for placement without needing a new plugin to do so. Plugin Derivatives also support the user interface by allowing it to display multiple plugins in place of one, allowing for help text specific to the use case to be rendered and utilized. The primary purpose of plugin derivatives is to provide partially configured plugins as "first class" plugins that are indistinguishable in the UI from other plugins, thus reducing the burden on administrators using these plugins.
A discovery decorator is another available discovery method meant to wrap an existing discovery method. Core currently supplies the cacheDecorator which will cache the discovery process that is chosen for a plugin type. This pattern could be expanded to other use cases if necessary.
Plugin Mappers allow you to map something (most often a string) to a specific plugin instance. Plugin types which use this approach can return fully configured and instantiated plugins based upon arbitrarily definable names instead of requiring developers using this api to manually instantiate and configure a plugin instance.
This article assumes that you've read Writing a Plugin, giving an overview (and many details) of how to develop a plugin. The same speaks specifically about the API "Hooks", also known as "Filters" and "Actions", used by WordPress to set your plugin at runtime.
Hooks are provided by WordPress to allow your plugin to 'hook into' the rest of WordPress; that is, to call functions in your plugin at specific times, and thereby set your plugin in motion. There are two kinds of hooks:
You can sometimes accomplish the same goal with either an action or a filter. For example, if you want your plugin to change the text of a post, you might add an action function to publish_post (so the post is modified as it is saved to the database), or a filter function to the_content (so the post is modified as it is displayed in the browser screen).
Actions are triggered by specific events that take place in WordPress, such as publishing a post, changing themes, or displaying an administration screen. An Action is a custom PHP function defined in your plugin (or theme) and hooked, i.e. set to respond, to some of these events. Actions usually do one or more of the following:
The first step in creating an action in your plugin is to create a PHP function with the action functionality of your plugin and put it in your plugin file (your plugin file must go into the wp-content/plugins directory). For example, if you want your friends to get an email message whenever you create a new post, you might define the following function:
For most actions, your function should accept a single parameter (usually the post or comment ID, depending on the action). Some actions take more than one parameter -- check the documentation for the action (if available) or the WordPress source code for more information. Besides the one parameter, you can also access the global variables of WordPress, and call other WordPress functions (or functions in your plugin file).
NOTE: Keep in mind that other plugins or the WordPress core may already be using the function name you have thought of. See the next section, Avoiding Function Name Collisions for more information.
This is a problem because PHP does not allow multiple functions with the same name. If two plugins provide a function with the same name, or a plugin provides a function with a name the same as a WordPress function, the blog could cease to function. There are two ways to avoid this problem.
The first solution is to prefix every function in your plugin with a unique set of characters. If your name is John Q. Public, you might declare your functions as function jqp_output() .... The likelihood that someone with the same initials does the same thing with their plugin is possible but low.
The add_action() function outside of the class adds the action to WordPress that tells it to call the send method when a post is published. The array used in the second parameter tells the plugin system to call the static method of the class 'emailer' named 'send'.
The last step in getting your action hook to work is to install the file and activate the plugin. The PHP function you wrote and the add_action call must go into a PHP file together, and the PHP file must be installed in the wp-content/plugins directory. Once it is installed, you will need to visit the admin section of WordPress and activate your plugin; see Managing Plugins for more details.
Filters are functions that WordPress passes data through, at certain points in execution, just before taking some action with the data (such as adding it to the database or sending it to the browser screen). Filters sit between the database and the browser (when WordPress is generating pages), and between the browser and the database (when WordPress is adding new posts and comments to the database); most input and output in WordPress passes through at least one filter. WordPress does some filtering by default, and your plugin can add its own filtering.
A filter function takes as input the unmodified data and returns modified data (or in some cases, a null value to indicate the data should be deleted or disregarded). If the data is not modified by your filter, then the original data must be returned so that subsequent plugins can continue to modify the value if necessary.
So, the first step in creating a filter in your plugin is to create a PHP function to do the filtering, and put it in your plugin file (your plugin file must go into the wp-content/plugins directory). For example, if you want to make sure that your posts and comments contain no profanity, you might define a variable with a list of forbidden words, and then create the following PHP function:
The last step in getting your filter hook to work is to install the file and activate the plugin. The PHP function you wrote and the add_filter() call must go into a PHP file together, and the PHP file must be installed in the wp-content/plugins directory. Once it is installed, you will need to visit the admin section of WordPress and activate your plugin; see Managing Plugins for more details.
In some cases, you may find that you want your plugin to disable one of the actions or filters built into WordPress, or added by another plugin. You can do that by calling remove_filter('filter_hook','filter_function') or remove_action('action_hook','action_function').
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