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The PHP Standard Recommendation, or PSR for short, from the aforementioned PHP-FIG.
I don’t want to dictate which standards you should follow, but I stick to the PSR, as they are also followed by other PHP frameworks like Symfony and Laravel. If you rely on PSR, you are not trapped in the WordPress universe and can seamlessly work on Symfony or Laravel projects as well. Opinions differ here, though; there are numerous advocates of the WordPress standard when programming for WordPress. If you ever want to become a core developer, you should definitely be aware that different coding standards exist.
I don’t want to dictate which standards you should follow, but I stick to the PSR, as they are also followed by other PHP frameworks like Symfony and Laravel. If you rely on PSR, you are not trapped in the WordPress universe and can seamlessly work on Symfony or Laravel projects as well. Opinions differ here, though; there are numerous advocates of the WordPress standard when programming for WordPress. If you ever want to become a core developer, you should definitely be aware that different coding standards exist.
It would be much nicer if we could use an established solution here. That’s where Composer comes in. Composer is a cross-platform dependency management tool for PHP that helps developers easily manage and automatically download required libraries and packages for their projects. At the same time, Composer also offers a PSR-4-based autoloading that we want to use for our plugin from now on.