Coding Best Practices - Lesson Plan

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• Topic description: Teach WordPress Coding Best Practise. Focus on good WordPress code, with semantic markup and WordPress. The principles in the lesson are valid for all code. As a sample, the class will code a plugin with a "Hello World" shortcode. The plugins can display an image, and the text strings will be translation-ready.  
• Audience (User, Developer, Contributor, etc.): Developer
• Learning objectives:
• How to plan the markup for a costum WordPress loop?
  • How to add the WordPress PHP snippets, like the_author() etc.
  • How to comment your markup and your PHP.
  • Learn to write readable, and beautifull code.
  • Link correctly to images.
  • Make translation ready text strings.
  • Knowledge of best practise.
• Content type (Course, Tutorial, Online Workshop, or Lesson Plan): Lesson Plan
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• Will you be creating this content? (Yes or No):

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This issue was edited by @bsanevans to match updated topic submission details.