Following common practice in WordPress plugin development, you create a class for you plugin, instantiate that class with a
$my_plugin = new My_Plugin();
in your main plugin file, and declare all your actions/filters in your class’s __construct() function, using something like:
add_filter('init', array($this, 'my_init_function'));
And then you go on to add your plugin’s JavaScript and CSS, register post types and taxonomies, look for query variables, etc.
I’m declaring that to be “wrong”, and I’m not going to do it anymore. Why? Because it’s not good objects-oriented design, and it seems to me that if you’re going to use objects, you should follow good object-oriented design patterns. Continue reading “Rethinking Object-Oriented WordPress Plugins”