OOP Plugin Development Basics (EN)

Building WordPress plugins in an object-oriented way presents some particular challenges, due to the fact that the WordPress APIs you’re coding against are mostly procedural in nature.

In this session, we’ll go over a real-world plugin to see how the code should be structured, and how best to hook into the WordPress lifecycle when you want to take full advantage of the benefits of OOP PHP.

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Over Alain Schlesser

Alain is a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany. He is the maintainer of WP-CLI, the command-line interface for WordPress and works on WordPress Core itself as a contributor and component maintainer. He offers higher-level consulting, code reviews and software design coaching, enabling companies to deal with frequent change and ever-growing complexity while optimizing for reduced maintenance effort and lower total cost of ownership. Passionate about software architecture and code quality, he never misses an opportunity to share best practices and tries to live up to his educational aspirations through public speaking and blogging. You can read his thoughts on code & other things at https://www.alainschlesser.com or say hello on Twitter under the handle @schlessera.