One response on “Brian Reed: Creating SOLID (not STUPID) Plugins and Themes”

1. WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas
   November 10, 2016 at 12:48 pm | Reply

   Hi,

   Great talk! Thanks for the video!

   I understand that these principles applies heavily on plugins development.

   But I would like to ask what do you think about using singletons in theme development? Here is example:

   Let’s say your theme does not do anything complicated (as all the functionality should be in plugins, right? ;)) but you’ve decide to encapsulate the theme code into PHP classes. At least this eliminates/enhances the unique naming issue of your theme code (as you can simply name your classes uniquely – especially useful in a framework).

   Now you create a class that outputs the theme assets. The next class would output the theme header, the other one outputs theme footer and so on.

   Is there any particular reason why these classes shouldn’t use singleton pattern?

   Thanks for the answer!

   Regards,

   Oliver

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