I'm a web developer from Cologne, Germany and dad to two kids.
After the previous article in this series was very technical, today we'll take a breather and indulge in a slightly more theoretical piece. Our topic is Hook-Driven-Development and why you too should implement it in your plugins. In WordPress plugin ...
In this article, I will discuss how and why WordPress hooks are used in plugins, and how we will use PHP attributes for registering hooks in classes effectively and clearly. What are hooks and how do they work? Since I assume a certain level of knowl...
In the previous article, we already learned a lot about coding standards, and today I like to discuss three more points: the file .editorconfig, the documentation of your code, and the declaration of strict types. The file .editorconfig The .editorco...
In the last article, I explained the use of namespaces, which we need today to establish autoloading, which simultaneously defines our file and folder structure. Declare classes in their own PHP files To keep our code clear, we distribute the code se...
In this article I'll point out, what's the reason for using namespaces in our WordPress plugins and what namespaces are. We will learn, that namespaces are important for the upcoming topics in this series. The problem with naming constants, functions...
What lies behind this somewhat provocative headline? Over time, I have noticed something about certain WordPress plugins. What exactly, I will describe here. First, I must admit, that I did not only notice that with plugins from other developers, but...
In this article series, I will present methods for building WordPress plugins in a modern and object-oriented way. The focus will be on code quality, reusability, maintainability, and extensibility of plugins and plugin code. In this first article, I...
