WordPress

Coding Standards

Micah Wood

@wpscholar

wpscholar.com

​

link.wpscholar.com/wcavl-2019-standards

What are they?

Coding Conventions

General guidelines recognized by most developers and tend to result in higher quality software.

Coding Standards

Coding conventions that have been formally adopted by a team or organization.

They aren’t one-size-fits-all.

Standards

can change.

Why use them?

Easy to add, maintain and debug code.

Benefits of Standards

• Code is more consistent
• Code is easier to read
• Code collaboration is easier
• Code is more secure
• Code is more performant
• Code is simpler

• Code is easier to understand
• Technical debt is reduced
• Code is easier to maintain
• Costs are reduced
• Code life is extended
• Sense of pride is high

Coding standards are a good code mentor.

How do I use them?

Install Composer

getcomposer.org

Install Coding Standards�composer require wpscholar/phpcs-standards-wpscholar

Run PHP Code Sniffer�vendor/bin/phpcs . --standard=WPScholar

Add a Composer Script

Resources

• https://getcomposer.org/
• https://wpscholar.com/courses/learning-composer-for-php/
• https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards
• https://github.com/wpscholar/phpcs-standards-wpscholar