Development Best Practices

[jonathanbossenger]

Details

• Content type (Online Workshop, Lesson, Course, Tutorial, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
• Content title: Development Best Practices
• Topic description: Covers some recommended coding practices when developing plugins.
• Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
• Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Intermediate

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the learner has already completed the following lessons:

• Beginner WordPress developer
  • Modules 1 - 4
  • Module 5: WordPress Hooks
  • Module 6: An introduction to developing WordPress plugins

Learning Objectives

• Describe methods to load assets or other functionality conditionally.
• Explain how to determine relevant path and URL values
• Describe suggested methods for organizing files in a plugin
• Discuss plugin architecture methodologies with examples

Related Resources and Other Notes

• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/best-practices/
• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/determining-plugin-and-content-directories/

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Lesson Development Checklist

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• Description and Objectives finalized
• Lesson created and announced to the team for review
• Lesson reviewed
• Lesson video submitted and published to WPTV
• Lesson created on Learn.WordPress.org
• Lesson video published to YouTube
• Lesson on Learn.WordPress.org updated with YouTube video
• Lesson published to Learn.WordPress.org

[jonathanbossenger]

Naming collisions has been moved to it's own lesson.

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Lesson Development Checklist

• Gather any relevant links to Support, Docs, or related material
• Description and Objectives finalized
• Lesson created and announced to the team for review
• Lesson reviewed
• Lesson video submitted and published to WPTV
• Lesson created on Learn.WordPress.org
• Lesson video published to YouTube
• Lesson on Learn.WordPress.org updated with YouTube video
• Lesson published to Learn.WordPress.org

[jonathanbossenger]

Script: https://github.com/wptrainingteam/learn-wp-content/blob/main/plugin-developer-learning-pathway/01-Plugin-Development-Practices/05-Development-Best-Practices.md

Audio file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qZ9cAoBDhoqbMPBb1tUkV146B-IioQ5b/view?usp=sharing