Resources for WordPress plugin development

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PHP Manual   PHP The Right Way  Vagrant

Opscode Chef Cookbook sources

 

 php-o … some function wrappers

Guidelines for theme development: some of this applies to plugins as well.

Messing around with the new media manager

 

Gmail

Modern HTML/CSS tutorial

PDF metadata  http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.pdf.info.html

From the CODEX

http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

Hints and tips

http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/08/ten-things-every-wordpress-plugin-developer-should-know/

Best practices

http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/30/lessons-learned-from-maintaining-a-wordpress-plug-in/

Intro catalog

http://wpmu.org/how-to-write-a-wordpress-plugin-12-essential-guides-and-resources/

Coding pitfalls

http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/09/top-10-most-common-coding-mistakes-in-wordpress-plugins/

WordPress coding standards (from the codex)

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards (single quotes where possible, tab indents, K&R braces,

Setup stuff

Installing server with PHP http://vertstudios.com/blog/php-apache-installation-tutorial/

Setting up to debug http://robsnotebook.com/php_debugger_pdt_xdebug

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