2 responses on “Kevin Fodness: Object-Oriented Theme Development

  1. Pakpoom Tivarkornkit's avatar Pakpoom Tivarkornkit

    Hi there, this video is really cool. It’s such a good idea to develop WordPress theme using OOP 🙂 it would be great if you could give us some links to Github or detailed pages related to this video =)

  2. Paul's avatar figureone

    To prevent plugin deactivation (e.g., if you use a site-level plugin to instantiate your data model), use mu-plugins:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins

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Published

January 14, 2015

Simplify your theme development, reuse code, and reduce compatibility problems by moving complex logic code out of your templates and functions.php file into a namespaced theme object. Take advantage of stateful caching and build your own base class to reuse functionality between projects.

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WordCamp Saratoga 2014 10

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Kevin Fodness 2

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object oriented programming 3
Theme Development 106

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