I love WordPress. Just absolutely love it. One of the things I love especially is how you can alter the output by adding just a small snippet of code. Turns out I”m not the only one who loves doing that because when you”re googling any given WordPress related subject, the pure amount of hits on Google can be overwhelming. I love how you can easily copy any of those snippets of code and put “em to use on your site.
But, I believe there”s something missing with all those snippets, at least in most cases. Two things: proper WordPress coding standards and inline documentation. Of those two articles on the Codex there are a few things that you should know about – whitespace, indentation & DocBlocks.
Here’s why. Not only does it make sense to adhere to WordPress coding standards when you’re building code that’s supposed to work with WordPress, but it also makes your code look good. Using function-level DocBlocks makes so much more sense when you think about it. When sharing your snippet – be it long or short – with tags like @author and @link, for example, make a few things a bit more obvious. Specifically, who the author is of the code, copyright information and the url explaining the snippet a bit more (most likely the article you have just written for that snippet). Code standards help especially in these two regards: