The history about the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate generator

Hi, I'm Enrique Chávez, and as a WordPress Developer, I’ve been using the fantastic Tom McFarlin's WPPB foundation plugin(now maintained by Devin Vinson) as my started plugin.

Whenever I start working on a new plugin, I rename file names, search and replace plugin-name, Plugin_Name, the packages, sub-packages names, etc. All these tasks take me around 5-10 minutes every time, and I don’t particularly appreciate repeating unnecessary tasks.

At that time, I was trying to work with NodeJS on an actual project, and this was an excellent opportunity to do it. A small and personal project, So I spent about 3 hours in the core builder and 2 hours on the homepage, and my little weekend project saw the light on November 16, 2014.

September 2022 update: Eight years later, the new generator version is made with Next.js, hosted on Vercel (bye, Heroku), and the generator uses serverless functions.