[Feature] Simple walk throughs for building a theme and a plugin in C#

[by-theo]

Description
Just looking for a simple guide to start building in C#, willing to assist with putting together the walk through but will need your assistance.

[jakubmisek]

Thats a good idea, we should definitely provide documentation on C# plugins.

For now, we have a sample plugin at https://github.com/iolevel/peachpie-wordpress/tree/master/app/Plugins or at

wpdotnet-sdk/plugins/PeachPied.WordPress.NuGetPlugins/PluginsOverride.cs

Line 25 in b531d81

sealed class Provider : IWpPluginProvider

[by-theo]

Awesome.

I tested the sample yesterday and was able to get the ShortcodePlugin to work, however I could not get it to be displayed in the list of installed plugins.

In PHP we usually set some info

/*
Plugin Name: My Plugin
Plugin URI:
Description:
Version: 0.0.1
Author: Theo Taylor | TAYLOR'D Technologies
Author URI: http://taylord.tech/
License:
*/

Not so sure how to get that done in C#, I am working through the examples tho so whatever I figure out I can post.

Another good set of snippets would be simple filters and actions

[by-theo]

Here is an example of a plugin that changes all of the post titles

using PeachPied.WordPress.Standard;

namespace WPTest.Plugins
{
    class CustomTitlePlugin : IWpPlugin
    {
        public void Configure(WpApp app)
        {
            app.AddFilter("the_title", new CustomTitle(() => "This is a custom title"));
        }
        private delegate string CustomTitle();
    }
}

[jakubmisek]

@Theo-Taylor nice! we'll be working on a C# plugin doc soon.

btw there is predefined FilterTitle helper method, so you can write:

public void Configure(WpApp app) {
        app.FilterTitle((title, postid) => "This is a custom title"));
}

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We're aware that the plugin is not listed in WP dashboard. It is because the plugin is loaded statically, as a must-use plugin.

[by-theo]

@jakubmisek awesome! Really looking forward to it

To the plugin not being listing - Ah gotcha, at first I was confused cause I didn't know if the plugin was working since it isn't listed but I understand

Keep us posted on the docs! I'm thinking about doing a tutorial series on wpdotnet development, completely in C# and including things like the WP REST API. Since .NET Core has React and Angular support I think this will be a new and fantastic way to build and deploy websites

[XeonG]

"Keep us posted on the docs! I'm thinking about doing a tutorial series on wpdotnet development, completely in C# and including things like the WP REST API. Since .NET Core has React and Angular support I think this will be a new and fantastic way to build and deploy websites"

Did you ever do that?.. would be super interested in using .Net Core with WP with a frontend in React,