Plugin development best practices and troubleshooting user issues (wcmtl)

Lefebvre, Yannick (2010). « Plugin development best practices and troubleshooting user issues »

Yannick Lefebvre

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• http://yannickcorner.nayanna.biz
• @ylefebvre sur Twitter

Plugins

• Link Library
• Tune Library
• Weekly Schedule (TV Shows)
• Modal Dialog (pop-ups)

Best Practices

• Avoiding jQuery conflicts
  • Avoid loading multiple instances
  • wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
  • wp_enqueue_style( $handle, $src, $deps, $ver, $media );
• Avoid conflicts with other plugin functions
• Watch out for the automatic upgrade cleanup

Blog Performance

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• Keep database access under control
• Reduce page refresh and size of database queries

Enhance the user experience

• Translation
  • load_plugin_textdomain( 'link-library', $llpluginpath . '/languages', 'link-library/languages' );
• Tooltips in the plugin admin page
• Debug mode
• Backward compatibility
• Think of all types of users for upgrade procedures
• Version number

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Plugin Development Best Practices and Troubleshooting User Issues