wp-includes/plugin.php:776Gets the basename of a plugin.
$filestringstringfunction 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 ( str_starts_with( $file, $realdir ) ) { $file = $dir . substr( $file, strlen( $realdir ) ); } } $plugin_dir = wp_normalize_path( WP_PLUGIN_DIR ); $mu_plugin_dir = wp_normalize_path( WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR ); // Get relative path from plugins directory. $file = preg_replace( '#^' . preg_quote( $plugin_dir, '#' ) . '/|^' . preg_quote( $mu_plugin_dir, '#' ) . '/#', '', $file ); $file = trim( $file, '/' ); return $file;}Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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