WordPress coding standards: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Andrew Dorokhov schedule 1 min read

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Coding standards

Tools for checking standards

open_in_new PHP_CodeSniffer: WordPress Coding Standards

Documentation standards

Best practices for plugins

For single-file plugins, we can take as a sample open_in_new wp-comment-notes plugin.

For multi-file plugins there is a great open_in_new WordPress Plugin Boilerplate .

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WordPress plugin development: file structure, headers, and activation