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We are often asked by developers what we are looking for when we screen submissions for the Add-on Library?  Is there a particular coding style that must be followed?  What types of things need to be avoided?  How do I know if my add-on is secure?  Well, after a long process, we are happy to release our guidelines for add-on developers.

It wasn’t planned as such, but the summary checklist has exactly 56 items on it, and to me, this is a perfect number.

Read on…

Wow Derek, you’re outdoing even Paul with all that trivia 😉

I happen to be 28, by the way…

I happen to be 28, by the way…

Perfect!  (literally)

[quote author=“Paul Burdick”]I happen to be 28, by the way…

That rises two questions: a) In what number system? and b) Does that imply that Paul will be less perfect next year?

*SCNR*

I thought 36-24-36 were the perfect numbers.  Of course they have to be together though.

Edit:  And they have to be in that exact order.  That is very important.  😉

Great trivia! It’s also great to see these guidelines published.

Thanks so much for these!

I can’t wait to build some new add-ons now…

Perfect indeed. Thanks very much these guidelines, they’ve helped clarify a lot of things I’ve discovered on my own just by digging around, and brought to my attention so much I didn’t know or know enough to even think about. Just wanted to add my voice of thanks and specifically for the detailed examples that I can see being extremely useful my next go-round with a needed add-on.

Second line last paragraph you’ve got a repeated word:

as we provide some some needed formality

Just letting you know

Cool, i just turned 28 on tuesday. 51 weeks of perfectness to go,

then it all turns pear shaped…

Derek,

Thanks for the guidelines.  I really appreciate this kind of stuff.  I know I personally have a lot of room for improvement.  It’s always good to have more advice from those who know better than me.  I’ll be referring to them for all my future stuff.  Especially appreciate the security/performance related stuff as that has been an area that I’ve found it hard to find consolidated advice.

Jamie

Sadly, I’m no longer perfect…. stupid calendar! 

But these guidelines are great!  I already can tell I have some work to do on tweaking my plugin.  I DID have a question on naming convention—it was said that we should include some part of our username in our plugin before to make it unique; did I miss something or is this no longer required?

That still stands, Vanceone, since your plugin name and filename are going to match your Class name: Class and method naming