[wp-hackers] Developer portal

[Ian Stewart]

- Links to coding style guides everywhere, just up to the point of
ridiculousness. It'd be nice to have that extra level of confidence when
you're branching out from an example.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Brad Williams <bradw at illiams.com> wrote:

> I think hooks (both Actions and Filters) are one of the hardest things to
> find when first starting.  I would imagine most of us on this list learned
> hooks by looking at other plugins.  Would be nice to have a solid resource
> just for that
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Mohammad
> Jangda
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:49 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Developer portal
>
> >
> > What do you wish you had when you first started developing for WordPress?
>
>
> From a plugin devs perspective:
>
> I learned mostly by looking at the code for other high-profile plugins and
> core. But it'd be great to have a portal that combines all of the
> following:
>
>   - Up-to-date walkthroughs/tutorials all in one place (Codex has links to
>   various blog posts -- many are outdated)
>   - Sample code (scattered around on the Codex)
>   - Coding conventions (On the Codex)
>   - Downloadable plugin skeletons
>   - A complete/updated list of action/filter hooks with docs and links to
>   source in trac (http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks)
>   - PHPXref (http://xref.yoast.com/)
>   - A search engine like http://wplookup.com/
>   - A place where I can ask questions after I've spent 5 hours on a problem
>   and still can't figure out, only to realize that I forgot a semi-colon
> and
>   proceeding to *facepalm* (wp-hackers)
>
> --
> Mohammad Jangda
> www.digitalize.ca | @mjangda
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