![]() We are not foolproof, and code may be misused in ways you never thought possible. Every time you make some change, you need to make sure it works, but also that you didn’t break anything. That’s OK, but there are issues with that.įirst, it’s time-consuming. The main motivation behind creating this package is to encourage more people to write tests for their code, especially plugin developers.Ī lot of developers in the WordPress community go with the mantra: I can see that it works because I’ve tried it out in my browser. I’m currently involved in the work which aims to release the new version of the WordPress Coding Standards, a set of rules used for the PHP_CodeSniffer tool that will let you know if your code has some potential issues (security, best practices, code style).Īnother tool that I’ve recently developed is a package that will help developers set up WordPress integration tests that use the Pest testing framework. One example of teaching new developers (but also old ones that are still clinging to the ‘WordPress’ way of doing things) is by writing tutorials.Īnother way is to encourage them to use tools that can help them write better code. So how can we break this cycle of bad code? By teaching new developers how they should write good code. This is where WordPress gets its bad reputation in the developer community. That in turn means they will reuse the poorly written code, increasing the amount of bad code in the world. That legacy PHP code is often used by the developers that are starting to enter the world of programming, and the issue with that is they can learn some bad programming patterns. It has a lot of legacy baggage and die-hard rules that prevent any backward compatibility breaking change when it comes to PHP code (Gutenberg is another story I won’t get into). It’s no secret that WordPress has a bad reputation when it comes to development. The reason for its popularity is its low entry barrier for both content creators and developers. ![]() We can all agree that WordPress has come a long way since its beginning and that it grew into something a lot more than blogging software.Īt its core, it’s still a content management system (CMS), but with over 59,000 plugins in the directory, you can customize it to be much more.
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