[wp-hackers] What makes WP index a plugin?

Arthur apeka1990 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 06:08:06 UTC 2011


On 06/16/2011 02:28 AM, John Blackbourn wrote:
> On 16 June 2011 00:14, Arthur<apeka1990 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> This seems like a goofy question, but I've ran into some problems, when
>> creating both themes and plugins. When creating plugin from scratch, I put
>> all the meta info required in empty file, name it like 'plugin_name.php', go
>> into WP dashboard, restart it - plugin not recognized.
> Have you double-checked that you have all the required headers? They
> can be found at
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#File_Headers
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Quote from Codex: "The minimum information WordPress needs to recognize 
your Plugin is the Plugin Name line. The rest of the information (if 
present) will be used to create the table of Plugins on the Plugin 
management screen.". And yes, I did fill in the "Plugin Name" field. 
Wouldn't bother you otherwise.


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