plugin_basename( string $file )
Gets the basename of a plugin.
Description Description
This method extracts the name of a plugin from its filename.
Parameters Parameters
- $file
-
(string) (Required) The filename of plugin.
Return Return
(string) The name of a plugin.
Source Source
File: wp-includes/plugin.php
function plugin_basename( $file ) { global $wp_plugin_paths; // $wp_plugin_paths contains normalized paths. $file = wp_normalize_path( $file ); arsort( $wp_plugin_paths ); foreach ( $wp_plugin_paths as $dir => $realdir ) { if ( strpos( $file, $realdir ) === 0 ) { $file = $dir . substr( $file, strlen( $realdir ) ); } } $plugin_dir = wp_normalize_path( WP_PLUGIN_DIR ); $mu_plugin_dir = wp_normalize_path( WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR ); $file = preg_replace( '#^' . preg_quote( $plugin_dir, '#' ) . '/|^' . preg_quote( $mu_plugin_dir, '#' ) . '/#', '', $file ); // get relative path from plugins dir $file = trim( $file, '/' ); return $file; }
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1.5.0 | Introduced. |
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If your plugin file is located at /home/www/wp-content/plugins/wpdocs-plugin/wpdocs-plugin.php, and you call:
The
$x
variable will equal to “wpdocs-plugin/wpdocs-plugin.php”.If you need to access a directory within your awesome plugin, eg, a class directory, you can access it by:
$lang_dir variable will now be “your-awesome-plugin/class”, you can now use this to reference files within the class directory.