Title: Plugin architecture guide
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin architecture guide

 *  [shelleyp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shelleyp/)
 * (@shelleyp)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-architecture-guide/)
 * I searched but couldn’t find anything on the architecture of the new plugin system.
   Is there a plugin how to somewhere, and I’m just not finding it?

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-architecture-guide/#post-47566)
 * [http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/PluginAPI](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/PluginAPI)
   
   [http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/WP%20Plugins](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/WP%20Plugins)
   Those are already available. A look at some plugins that have already been written
   can help too. I wish someone who wrote a plugin would also write a “howto write
   a plugin” kind of document 🙂
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-architecture-guide/#post-47572)
 * The “Hello Dolly” plugin is supposed to be a guide/template for making plugins.
   There’s not a whole lot to it, but it will be more formally introduced in the
   docs section of this website soon.

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