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Advanced WordPress Plugin Engineering: Scale, Security & React UIs

Engineer secure, performant, production-grade plugins with rich React UIs.

56 lessons 56 available ~193 min total
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What you'll learn

Architect large plugins, harden security and performance, build advanced React/Gutenberg interfaces, write tests, and ship maintainable, distributable products.

Who it's for

Experienced WordPress plugin developers.

Prerequisites

Solid plugin development plus REST API and React experience.

Production-grade plugin engineering: architecture, security, performance, and React UIs.

Curriculum

  1. 1

    Modern PHP Standards for WordPress

    3 min
  2. 2

    Dependency Injection Basics

    3 min
  3. 3

    Architecting Service Providers

    3 min
  4. 4

    Advanced Custom Database Tables

    4 min
  5. 5

    Data Access Objects Pattern

    3 min
  6. 6

    Query Caching Strategies

    4 min
  7. 7

    Database Indexing for Scale

    4 min
  8. 8

    Sanitization Pipelines

    3 min
  9. 9

    Output Escaping Patterns

    4 min
  10. 10

    Nonce Management Architecture

    3 min
  11. 11

    Capability and Permission Systems

    3 min
  12. 12

    Preventing SQL Injection

    4 min
  13. 13

    Secure REST API Endpoints

    3 min
  14. 14

    Cross-Site Scripting Mitigation

    4 min
  15. 15

    Auditing Plugin Security

    4 min
  16. 16

    Modern Build Tooling with Vite

    3 min
  17. 17

    React Component Architecture

    3 min
  18. 18

    State Management with @wordpress/data

    3 min
  19. 19

    Block API v2 Essentials

    3 min
  20. 20

    InnerBlocks and Nested Structures

    3 min
  21. 21

    Custom REST API Integration

    3 min
  22. 22

    Optimizing React Rendering

    4 min
  23. 23

    Code Splitting and Lazy Loading

    4 min
  24. 24

    Advanced Admin Dashboards

    4 min
  25. 25

    Component Library Design

    3 min
  26. 26

    Linting and Code Quality

    3 min
  27. 27

    Unit Testing with PHPUnit

    4 min
  28. 28

    Integration Testing

    3 min
  29. 29

    Test-Driven Development Workflow

    4 min
  30. 30

    Automated CI/CD Pipelines

    3 min
  31. 31

    Versioning and Release Management

    3 min
  32. 32

    Internationalization (i18n)

    3 min
  33. 33

    Licensing Infrastructure

    4 min
  34. 34

    Automated Update API

    3 min
  35. 35

    Documentation Systems

    4 min
  36. 36

    Refactoring for Distribution

    4 min
  37. 37

    Plugin Lifecycle Management

    3 min
  38. 38

    Performance Monitoring

    3 min
  39. 39

    Advanced Error Handling

    4 min
  40. 40

    User Feedback Loops

    3 min
  41. 41

    Handling Plugin Conflicts

    4 min
  42. 42

    Advanced Hook Management

    4 min
  43. 43

    Database Schema Evolution

    3 min
  44. 44

    High-Concurrency Data Handling

    4 min
  45. 45

    Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) Lite

    3 min
  46. 46

    Advanced Query Filters

    4 min
  47. 47

    Secure File Handling

    3 min
  48. 48

    Background Processing

    4 min
  49. 49

    Transient Caching Patterns

    4 min
  50. 50

    Advanced Nonce Security

    3 min
  51. 51

    Multi-tenancy Considerations

    3 min
  52. 52

    Custom Gutenberg Block Controls

    3 min
  53. 53

    Block Transforms and Deprecation

    4 min
  54. 54

    Dynamic Block Rendering

    4 min
  55. 55

    Advanced State Persistence

    4 min
  56. 56

    Custom Hooks for React

    3 min