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Any selection of snippets exports as an ordinary WordPress plugin that runs them without Byte, for a site where Byte is not installed or for code that should ship as its own plugin.

From the workspace

Export snippets in the workspace toolbar opens a two-step dialog:

Snippets: choose the snippets the plugin contains.
Plugin: the plugin’s name, description, version, author, plugin URI and text domain. With one snippet selected, they start from its name, description, version and export keys in snippet.json; otherwise from the name SleekByte, version 1.0.0 and the text domain sleek-byte.

Finishing downloads <slug>-<version>.zip, where the slug is the plugin name lowercased with hyphens. Install it from Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. The export includes the snippets as they are in the editor, saved or not.

With WP-CLI

Shell

wp sleek byte export my-snippet --zip --dest=/tmp

exports one snippet as saved, with the plugin header taken from its snippet.json, and prints the path it wrote. Without --zip it writes the plugin as a folder. Without --dest it writes into uploads/sleek-byte-exports. The CLI reference lists the options.

What the plugin contains

<slug>.php, the plugin’s main file with its header;
classes/, a copy of Byte’s snippet runtime under a namespace of its own;
snippets/<folder>/, each exported snippet under the last part of its folder name.

The plugin loads its snippets exactly as Byte does: the same snippet.json keys, conditions, assets, runtime error log and safe mode. Its copies of Byte’s filters carry a prefix unique to the export, sleekByteExport_<id>/, so a filter written for Byte does not reach it.

The copied runtime reads only its own snippets folder, never wp-content/uploads/sleek-byte, so a site where Byte ran before does not run the snippets left there twice. It keeps its error log, asset handles and folders under its own name, sleek-byte-export-<id>, and previews drafts only through Byte.

Actions_exportSnippet returns the plugin’s files and Actions_exportSnippetZip writes the ZIP on the server, for other tools; see the REST reference.