About this plugin
Fixyno Core is the official optional companion plugin for the Fixyno
Appliance Repair WordPress theme (slug: fixyno-appliance-repair ). It
adds a structured Services Custom Post Type (CPT) with taxonomies,
service-card meta fields, and helper functions that Fixyno theme templates
consume to render themed home-service and HVAC service cards.
Fixyno Core stores everything in standard WordPress wp_posts +
wp_postmeta tables, which means your service content is portable — it
survives theme switches. If you ever move off Fixyno, all of your service
descriptions, featured images, prices and categories are preserved and can
be migrated anywhere.
What this plugin actually does
- Registers the Services custom post type ( fixyno_service ):
title, editor, featured image, excerpt, custom-fields, revisions,
page-attributes, and full block-editor (REST API) support.
- Registers Service Categories (hierarchical taxonomy, like Post
Categories) → fixyno_service_cat
- Registers Service Tags (flat taxonomy, like Post Tags) →
fixyno_service_tag
- Adds two Service editor meta boxes with 6 sanitized meta fields:
- Material Symbols icon name (used when no Featured Image exists)
- Corner badge text — “Most Requested”, “Gas Certified” etc.
- Starting price / price range — “From $79” or “$79 – $199”
- Custom CTA button label — “Book Service”, “View Details”
- Custom CTA URL — replaces default single-service permalink
- Featured features list — one bullet per line, renders as checklist
- Adds 5 extra admin columns on the Services list screen: Icon preview,
Badge, Price, Service Categories, and Featured Image thumbnail.
- Enqueues Material Symbols font on the Service editor admin screen ONLY
(so icon name previews render as the correct glyph in admin columns;
ZERO front-end / public asset enqueues from this plugin).
- Provides 3 public helper functions for Fixyno theme templates:
fixyno_core_get_service_meta(),
fixyno_core_get_service_features_array(), and
fixyno_core_get_service_card_cta().
- Registers a lightweight Dashboard → Fixyno Core “About” admin page
with setup documentation, feature overview, and next-step links.
Theme compatibility
This plugin only exposes data and helpers. It does NOT output anything
visible on public site front-ends by itself. Visual rendering is done
100% by the Fixyno Appliance Repair theme’s templates. Installed on a
site that does not use Fixyno, the plugin activates cleanly and does
nothing beyond registering the post type + taxonomies.
Important
This plugin is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. The Fixyno Appliance Repair theme
works 100% standalone without it — the home Services section simply uses
six Customizer-editable cards instead. No nags, no required activation,
no notices for non-admin users.
Plugin principles
- No external API calls, no remote assets loaded on public front-ends.
- Zero tracking, zero telemetry, zero data collection of any kind.
- Every public-facing meta output is escaped ( esc_html, esc_url,
esc_attr, esc_textarea ) by the helper functions / save callbacks.
- Every save callback is gated by nonce + user-capability check +
post-type guard + revision/autosave filter.
- Single text domain fixyno-core with
org language-pack
system when translations are contributed.
- Activation hook flushes rewrite rules (CPT permalink base /service/
plus taxonomies /service-category/ and /service-tag/ ).