Best practices: examples for plugin developers

[mahnunchik]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have good documentation for plugin developers https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/

But there are situations where it would be better to expect sample source code to understand feature and to understand best practices.

Even core maintainers don't understand some aspects of new editor: 10up/insert-special-characters#55

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be awesome to have some reference implementations. Simple but useful plugins to give developers ability to understand best practices.

For example I've used the Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg sources advanced-rich-text-tools from @ellatrix — a year ago it was awesome sample of good plugin.

But now it is too outdated and doesn't work at all https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-5-3-0-trying-to-get-property-base-of-non-object/ and ellatrix/advanced-rich-text-tools#8

I think it would be nice to have updated to latest API/capabilities reference simple plugin/plugins to show developers good examples.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Better handbook https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/ but sample plugin would be awesome too. The same for themes #21401

[oandregal]

Hi @mahnunchik I don't see that you mentioned the https://github.com/wordpress/gutenberg-examples so I thought I'd share in case that's helpful and/or covers the need you suggested.

[mahnunchik]

Hi @nosolosw Thanks, yep it is helpful. I forgot to mention it 😢

My idea is a little wider: to have sample plugin like Advanced Rich Text Tools for Gutenberg to receive feedback not only from developers but from usual users too.

[ryanwelcher]

The Gutenberg Examples repository is meant to serve this purpose so I am going to close this out.