2. WHY HAVE CODING STANDARDS?
• Ensure consistency across elements
• Improve readability
• Avoid common errors
• Easier to modify

3. TYPES OF CODE
• PHP
• HTML
• CSS

4. WORDPRESS CODEX
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards

5. SOME EXAMPLES
Awful
• http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-ez-
backup/tags/4.9/wp-ezbackup.php
Bad, but not terrible
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5/wp-
includes/functions.php
Much Better
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/functions.php

6. QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
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