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WordPress

missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points
Posted by missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points

Any Wordpress Plugin Developers Out There?

I'm starting to build my own Wordpress Theme Framework and I'm wondering what are things that I could include in my theme to make things easier for developers? My idea is to make something like Studio Press's Genesis without the exorbitant price tag and I want to make sure that it is very plugin friendly. Any thoughts?

1 Answer

Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points
Paul Graham
Paul Graham
1,396 Points

As long as you follow WP best practices, you should be fine with plugins. Plugins should be doing things like prefixing their functions and classes so as not to interfere with theme developers. It's more on plugin developers to play nice.

I strongly disagree that Genesis has "exorbitant" price tag. It's far better than 95% of existing WP themes in terms of codebase and it would take you hundreds or thousands of hours to develop something as well-tested and robust. Your time should be worth something.

$60 for a theme framework you get updates for life for is nothing. Your clients get to improve their security and SEO without you being involved. Don't be cheap.