Becoming a WordPress Coding Master

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This document provides tips for becoming a WordPress coding master, including knowing how you learn best, developing locally, learning to debug, collaborating with others, having a plan with milestones and actions items, finding a mentor, writing readable code, using version control, reusing code, managing dependencies, filling knowledge gaps in security, testing, and design patterns, getting code reviews, and varying learning experiences.

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Becoming a WordPress
Coding Master
Micah Wood
@wpscholarhttps://wpscholar.com/wctpa2016

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