Best Practices in Wordpress Development

WordPress- A true web domain specific framework for future: Considering the fact that future IT industry relies on web domain, we can’t ignore the importance of any web domain specific language, framework or whatever like PHP, Python, ASP, JSP etc. There is yet another advanced PHP frameworks i.e. WordPress which is a combination of Open source PHP and Open Source MySQL. Many believe that PHP and MySQL is a beautiful and elegant couple of the industry. Because they are not only enables a web developer or PHP developer to kick start his first project from day 1 but also having a tremendous potential to develop any type of enterprise standard web applications on the fly. So, the industry gives respect to their co-ordination and strong bond of love!! WordPress is yet another bouquet of love and respect for this deadly combo. On the other hand, PHP developers are mad to develop WordPress web applications in less time and more efficiency. Let us have a quick look over few tips or you can say best practises of WordPress developers to develop enterprise standard web applications in PHP.

Follow proper naming convention: This is the first and most important disciplinary tip to kick start your career in IT industry. A web developer can never be treated as a good developer until and unless his codes follow proper naming convention. WordPress developer must follow a proper coding convention for different components like method name, Variable Name, Class name etc as a basic thumb rule for coding good codes.

Indentation matters: As a web developer you must satisfy yourself that what you are writing on the WordPress IDE can be understandable by a foreign body. If a code can’t be understandable by a third party, then we must say this is an ugly code. Well, you can understand the code yourself but, you must keep in mind that it should be understandable by a new web developer without giving him an annoying experience and for the same the WordPress developer must follow proper indentation of his code.

Readable and maintainable code should be your aim: A PHP WordPress developer must write neat and clean code which is not only readable but also maintainable. See, any project doesn’t remain under a specific web developer because, it traverse from one developer to other with time. In many cases, the Project can be traverse between companies as well. So, while you write a code, make sure it can be reusable and maintainable in future in your absence.

Proper validation is must, backend validation too: Web development can never be complete without web forms. Hence we must care this important component of a web application. As a WordPress developer you must validate each and every field of the web forms in the application. Need not to say, it should be validated in backend as well to avoid hackers bad intention.

Cache management is necessary for modern browsers: Any web application in modern era needs Optimization due to resource constraints like less device memory, low browser memory, low bandwidth etc. To challenge these issues, WordPress developers must take the help of optimized cache management in their applications to avoid unnecessary network communications and memory.

You must use Cloud technology, HTML5, CSS3 to meet future demand: In 21st century, if a web developer will not take the help of modern amenities like HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Cloud computing; then I would say he can’t survive in the industry. So you must implement these weapons while developing future web apps to meet the user demands in the form of Responsive web application!! To get maximum benefits of Wordpress, you may consider hiring services of a WordPress application development company.

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