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WordPress Plugin Developer
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SWPD #014: Does Your Plugin Need a Custom Database Table?
WordPress has grown to be a huge portion of the internet and therefore has been proven to scale really well in the right conditions. At its core, it’s just a…
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SWPD #013: How to Make Breaking Changes In your Plugin
If you’ve created a plugin in the WordPress repository, you’ve likely been at a point where you need to modify or remove a publicly accessible function. By publicly accessible I…
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SWPD #012: Semantic Versioning 101
If you have a plugin in the WordPress repository, the plugin team requires that you have a version number. However, I see a lot of plugins declaring arbitrary version numbers…
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SWPD #011: The Four Levels of Automated Testing
This week, I’m going to walk you through the four levels of automated testing. Each level of testing covers a different aspect of the overall quality of your plugin code.…
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SWPD #010: How to Add Acceptance Tests to Your WordPress Plugin
This week, I’m going to walk through a testing setup that you can implement in about 20 minutes and a test that will cover the entirety of your plugin right…
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SWPD #009: How to Audit the Codebase of Your WordPress Plugin
This week I’m going to show you how to do an audit for the codebase of a WordPress plugin. A checklist of areas where you can steadily make improvements helps…
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SWPD #008: Namespacing WordPress Hooks in Plugins
This week, I’m going to show you one of the best ways I’ve found to write quality hook names for your plugin’s actions & filters. I’ve been working on a…
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SWPD #007: How to Use Composer to Simplify Plugin Development
This week, I’m going to explain how you can set up Composer for WordPress plugins. Plugins can be as simple as a single PHP file with a few functions. But…
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SWPD #006: Use Modern PHP in Your WordPress Plugins
Today, I’m going to show you that plugins should be elegant PHP applications that interface with WordPress. PHP is still a vibrant and powerful language—even if the discussions on social…
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SWPD #005: Easily Zip WordPress Plugins with WP-CLI dist-archive
This week, I’m going to walk you through setting up WP-CLI’s dist-archive so you can easily zip up new versions of your plugin. Over the last year, I’ve built a handful of plugins…