2025 · Creator & Maintainer

WordPress Plugin Dev Toolkit

Comprehensive TypeScript toolkit for WordPress plugin development — React-based control panel, hot reload, automated scaffolding, and build pipeline.

The challenge

Building a polished WordPress plugin pulls in webpack, TypeScript, React, hot reload, REST scaffolding, and a packaging pipeline — each project reinvents the same boilerplate.

The result

A TypeScript toolkit shipping the React control panel, hot reload, REST scaffolding, build pipeline, and release packaging as one starter — so new plugins start at month 2 of polish, not day 1.

Year: 2025
Role: Creator & Maintainer
Stack: 5 teches
Status: Published

Overview

A modern development toolkit that brings a React-based control panel and streamlined build pipeline to WordPress plugin development.

Features

React-based plugin control panel — settings pages as React components, no jQuery
Hot module reload during development
Automated plugin scaffolding (generates boilerplate from a config file)
TypeScript-first — full type safety for WP REST API responses
Integrated ESLint, Prettier, and Stylelint configs
Production build with asset fingerprinting and manifest

Why

WordPress plugin UIs are typically built with legacy jQuery or bare @wordpress/components. This toolkit brings the same DX as a modern web app to plugin admin pages.