I would say the section Constants in the WordPress: PHP Documentation Standards is pretty clear. It should look like this: /** * Summary. * * @since x.x.x (if available) * @var type $var Description. */ define( ‘MY_CONST’, ‘Hello’ );
This is mostly just for readability. The semantics change before and after a parenthesis, and we are used to read spaces as word separators in western languages, so we can read such code faster. Another point is search: If you want to search for all changes on variables beginning with $post it is easier to … Read more
You cannot use constants or anything other than actual strings with translation functions. This is because the code that reads your code, and produces the translatable strings does not actually run your code, it is reading your code. Here is a more detailed post on the topic: http://ottopress.com/2012/internationalization-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/ But the short version is this: This … Read more
First, this question should be asked on the Theme Reviewers mail-list, not at WPSE. If you want official answers, you should use the official communication channels. But to answer your question in brief: Themes that implement core features/functionality are required to support the core implementation of those features/functionality. Thus, the requirement to use wp_link_pages() is… … Read more
What make possible unit test plugins?
What’s the best practice way of handling custom fields in different post formats?
Add comments for template variables
Should I check for privileges before hooking into `wp_ajax_$handle` or after?
If there is anything printed above the logo, then in most cases it’s caused by some errors in PHP. So somewhere in your theme or in one of plugins there is some bad code that is causing this. And these characters suggest that they’re some badly converted UTF characters or some other characters that are … Read more
Prefixing plugin hooks (actions/filters) with a wrapper class or functions