Generate a WordPress plugin for Stripe payments
Most WordPress sites that accept Stripe end up installing a generic plugin, customising it with glue code in functions.php, and patching conflicts every time the plugin updates. If you already know what flow you want — a donation box, a one-off checkout for a digital product, a premium service tier — generating a plugin that does exactly that is faster and cleaner than bolting features onto WP Simple Pay or WooCommerce.
Tell us the fields you want in the admin, the shortcode or block that should appear on the front, how you handle success and cancel URLs, and whether you need webhook signature verification. We write the PHP, test the plugin activates cleanly in a live WordPress 6.8 + PHP 8.1 sandbox, and hand you a standard ZIP.
Why generate it instead of installing an existing plugin?
Free Stripe plugins on wp.org are a shortcut that stops being one the day you need something they did not plan for — a custom metadata field per transaction, a post-payment action that triggers your own email flow, a staged rollout where test mode is toggleable from a hidden admin page. You end up editing plugin source, and the next update wipes it.
Premium plugins (WP Simple Pay Pro, Easy Digital Downloads with the Stripe extension) solve this for common cases but charge a recurring fee and still impose their admin UI, their hook names, their way of structuring data. When your use case is slightly off-standard, you pay for features you do not use and still hack around the ones you do.
Generating the plugin from a description gives you the smallest possible codebase that does what you need, using your naming conventions. Secret keys stored as options with autoload=no, webhook routes under your own namespace, no marketing page injected into wp-admin. The code is yours under GPL — audit it, modify it, ship it to clients.
Example prompt
This is the kind of description that generates this plugin. You can start from it and tweak whatever you need before hitting generate.
Plugin name: Acme Stripe Donations
A shortcode [acme_donate amount="10" label="Support us"] that opens a Stripe Checkout session with the amount in USD, success_url pointing to a /thank-you page on my site, cancel_url pointing back to the referrer.
Admin settings page under Settings > Acme Stripe with:
- Stripe publishable key (text)
- Stripe secret key (password field, stored with autoload=no)
- Test / Live mode toggle (checkbox)
- Success page slug (text, default "thank-you")
- Webhook signing secret (password field)
Register a REST endpoint /acme-stripe/v1/webhook that verifies the signature and fires the action "acme_donation_succeeded" with the Stripe event data as argument. No DB table needed — we consume the hook from another plugin.
Uninstall cleans all acme_stripe_* options. HPOS-compatible if WooCommerce is active but does not require it.What the generated plugin typically includes
- Main plugin file with standard WP header and ABSPATH guard
- Settings page using the Settings API (register_setting + sections + fields)
- Shortcode handler that creates a Stripe Checkout session via the official PHP SDK or wp_remote_post
- REST route with permission_callback and signature verification against the signing secret
- uninstall.php that removes all options on plugin deletion
- Translation-ready strings via __() with the plugin text domain
- Capability check (manage_options) gating the admin page
These are typical defaults for this kind of plugin. You can ask for a subscription-style flow, custom metadata passed through Stripe, multi-currency, refunds via admin — anything you can describe in the prompt.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with WooCommerce?
It does not require WooCommerce by default, but if WC is active the plugin declares HPOS compatibility and can optionally write a note to the order. Say so in the prompt if you want that behaviour.
Is the code mine?
Yes, released under GPL-2.0-or-later. No phone-home, no license server, no obfuscation. Install it on ten sites if you want. You can resell it as part of a bigger bundle.
What if the generated plugin has a bug?
You can regenerate with a follow-up message describing the fix — the system reads the existing code and patches it. If the plugin fails the automated lint + activation checks, you are not charged for that generation.
Do I need to install Composer?
No. We either use the Stripe REST API via wp_remote_post (no dependencies) or bundle the SDK if you ask for it. The ZIP is upload-ready via wp-admin → Plugins → Upload.