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Growing up, my brother and I would go grocery shopping with Mum. The best part of the trip was discovering ‘Shop A Dockets,’ which are printed coupons on the back of receipts. On the back of my Mum’s shopping receipt, there would be these advertisements. Sometimes we’d get lucky, and the ads offered a discount. […]
When you’re building a WordPress site some things belong in themes and some in plugins. Usually anything having to do with display is in the theme and anything that might be used elsewhere should be in a plugin. As an example: take a custom post type and a custom meta box. Those are things that your end user will probably want to keep around after a theme change. They both belong in a plugin. Because you’re a really good WordPress dev, you don’t use magic strings and instead built a nice set of wrapper methods to fetch those custom meta values for your post type. Maybe as a nice object that someone can pass a post ID into and use.