First of all lets clarify what paradigm word means in the programming. It means that we come to an agreement that we will handle certain cases/issues/situations in a certain way. For instance, we come to agreements that foot-passenger should cross a road on a green light in our country. This is our green light paradigm. … Read more
WordPress coding standards for PHP does not state anything about this, and there is no other standard, so it’s up to developers to choose one way or another. I have to say that the 2 methods have different approaches; while the first contains conditional logic, the second is a conditional function declaration, which means that … Read more
I think it’s impossible to give a definitive answer here, because choices like this are personal preference. Consider that what follows is my approach, and I have no presumption it is the right one. What I can say for sure is that you should avoid your third option: Just return null/false This is bad under … Read more
What happen if the user don’t have capability to eat sandwich? WSOF? If I’d want to follow average default themes templates, I’d go for // eat-sandwich.php (as @Rarst said avoid wp-lunch.php as it’s not part of WP core) get_header( ‘sandwich’ ); if ( current_user_can( ‘eat_sandwich’ ) ) { get_template_part( ‘eat-sandwich’, ‘content’ ); } else { … Read more
First, ignore the class- prefix. This comes from WordPress’ pure procedural code approach, classes are used as containers for procedural code, not for real objects, and most files do not contain classes at all or classes and other code together. It doesn’t make sense when all of your files contain just one class and nothing … Read more
Yes, WordPress’s maintains backward compatibility (spaghetti), it would not be feasible to adhere to PSR-0 and rename everything, which is somewhat unfortunate for the long-term, with regards to FIG. That being said it’s possible to adopt it for plugins and themes, there is a trac about it here: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21300
Resoning Regarding “white space” (no matter if tabs or spaces): It’s simply a personal preference that stuck with the project. The WP coding standards imo are a mess and can be ignored – as long as you aren’t contributing to core, which is a different story and style guide gets ignored there as well. “[…] … Read more