The WordPress Coding Standards

We've written quite a bit about the WordPress APIs in previous articles, and we've touched on the WordPress Coding Standards, but we've never really taken a deep dive into the coding standards, understanding each aspect of them, and why they matter.

So in this series, we're going to be doing just that.

Posts in this series

The WordPress Coding Standards: An Introduction
When it comes to building WordPress-based products, we're somewhat cursed (or blessed, depending on how you see it), with a double-edged sword: Because...
Tom McFarlin
4 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
WordPress Coding Standards: Naming Conventions & Function Arguments
In this series, we're taking a deep dive into the WordPress Coding Standards - specifically, the PHP coding standards - in order to evangelize and understand...
Tom McFarlin
6 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
The WordPress Coding Standards: Single Quotes and Double Quotes
In this series, we're taking a look at the WordPress PHP Coding Standards in order further understand how quality WordPress code should be written. Sure,...
Tom McFarlin
11 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
The WordPress Coding Standards: Indentation, Space Usage, and Trailing Spaces
The entire purpose of this series to help expose the WordPress Coding Standards, why they matter, and how to write quality WordPress code. In order to do...
Tom McFarlin
13 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
The WordPress Coding Standards: The Ternary Operator and Yoda Conditions
At this point in the series, we've covered a lot of ground. Up to now, we've discussed the following topics: Naming Conventions and Function Arguments ...
Tom McFarlin
21 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
The WordPress Coding Standards: Braces, Regular Expressions, and PHP Tags
In this series, we've been taking a deep dive into the WordPress Coding Standards in order to get the word out about them, understand them, and begin to...
Tom McFarlin
19 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
The WordPress Coding Standards: Database Queries and Formatting SQL Queries
Aside from the summary that we're going to be providing as the last article in this series, this is the last explication of the WordPress Coding Standards...
Tom McFarlin
25 Jun 2013
Cheat Sheets
The WordPress Coding Standards: Bringing It All Together
When it comes to writing a series of blog posts, one of the most challenging aspects as a reader is actually keeping up with every post that is published. ...
Tom McFarlin
27 Jun 2013
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The WordPress Coding Standards

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