TinyLibraries is a small attempt to solve lack of library sharing and library dependency capabilities in WordPress. It allows plugin developers to define what libraries they require for their code to function in plugin headers, like this
/*
Plugin Name: TinyLibraries Sample A
Plugin URI: http://arunas.co
Description: Loads A library
Version: 0.1.0
Author: Arūnas Liuiza
Author URI: http://arunas.co
Text Domain: tinylibraries
Libraries: wp-background-processing
*/
In this example plugin declares that it requires WP Background Processing library. It will be downloaded and installed when this plugin is activated.
Later in the code, plugin developer can require_once the library via TinyLibraries()->require_library( 'wp-background-processing' ); method. You can see this in work in sample plugins: tinylibraries-sample-a.php, tinylibraries-sample-b.php and tinylibraries-sample-ab.php. They can also provide a fallback to make sure the plugin functions correctly even if TinyLibraries is not present:
if ( ! function_exists( 'TinyLibraries' ) || ! TinyLibraries()->require_library( 'wp-background-processing' ) ) {
require_once( 'path/to/my/local/copy/of/wp-background-processing.php' );
}
Currently supported libraries:
- WP Background Processing by Delicious Brains Inc. -
wp-background-processing - ButterBean by Justin Tadlock. -
butterbean - Extended Taxonomies by John Blackbourn. -
extended-taxos - Extended CPTs by John Blackbourn. -
extended-cpts - Freemius by Freemius. -
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