Naming Collisions

[jonathanbossenger]

Details

• Content type (Online Workshop, Lesson, Course, Tutorial, or Lesson Plan): Lesson
• Content title: Naming Collisions
• Topic description: How to avoid naming collisions in WordPress plugins.
• Audience (User, Developer, Designer, Contributor, etc.): Developer

• Experience Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Any): Intermediate

  Prerequisites

  It is assumed that the learner has already completed the following lessons:

  • Beginner WordPress developer
  • Modules 1 - 4
  • Module 5: WordPress Hooks
  • Module 6: An introduction to developing WordPress plugins

    Learning Objectives

• Describe what naming collisions are
• Explain, with examples, how to use prefixes to avoid naming collisions
• Explain, with examples, how to use namespaces to avoid naming collisions
• Explain, with examples, how to use classes to avoid naming collisions

  Related Resources and Other Notes

• https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/best-practices/#avoid-naming-collisions
• https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/php/#namespace-declarations

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