Do's & Don'ts for WordPress Theme Development
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Do's & Don’ts for WordPress Theme Development #WPMelb Anthony Hortin @maddisondesigns Wednesday, 11 September 13
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Everyone loves a well constructed WordPress theme. Learn about the things you should and shouldn't do when coding up a WordPress theme. Not only will it make your theme more awesome, but your end users will love you for doing things the right way!
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Do's & Don’ts for WordPress Theme Development
#WPMelb
Anthony Hortin@maddisondesigns
Wednesday, 11 September 13
Just don’t Ok!
That’s what stylesheets are for!
Don’t Use Inline Styles
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If you really must have 25 sliders, only load the script for the one that’s used, not all 25!
Don’t Load scripts on pages that don’t need them.
if ( is_front_page() ) wp_register_script( ... ); wp_enqueue_script( ... );}
Don’t Load Scripts if they’re not Required
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Do Make Sure Child Themes Work Properly
Make sure your theme works with child themes.
This includes ‘Template Builders’, Theme Options etc.
‘Nuff said.
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Don’t just add scripts & stylesheets to header.php or footer.php
Use wp_register_style() & wp_enqueue_style()*
Use wp_register_script() & wp_enqueue_script()*
*If your scripts have dependencies, you don’t need to enqueue those dependencies. WordPress is smart enough to automagically do that for you
Do Enqueue Scripts & Stylesheets Properly
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Don’t Remove Core Functionality
Never ever, ever remove (or override) core functionality.
Just don’t ok!
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Don’t Read or Write to the Database Directly
If you need to query the database, WordPress has a function for that!
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Don’t Change Functionality of index.php
This is the file that produces your blog archive.
If you need a custom homepage, use front-page.php
Don’t break the Reading Settings functionality
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Don’t have Theme Options Overload
You don’t need one million different theme options
No really, you don’t!http://catalysttheme.com/admin-screenshots
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Do follow WordPress Coding Standards
PHP Coding Standardshttp://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/php/
HTML Coding Standardshttp://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/html/
CSS Coding Standardshttp://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/css/
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Questions?
You can find me here...
maddisondesigns.comeasywpguide.com@maddisondesigns
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