When it comes to WordPress development, there typically tends to be two camps (with a third that’s on the rise):
- There are theme developers
- There are plugin developers
- Then there is the growing field of application developers
Personally, I’m a fan of building plugins. Obviously, it’s not because I have anything against building themes, but I’m a programmer – not a designer – by nature, so I add to the WordPress experience through functionality rather than functionality and design.
In fact, I think if I had to design, it’d probably take away from the experience :).
But plugins are software and there are problems that have existed as long as software has existed. In fact, entire markets have been created around said problem: filing bug reports.
I’m not here to provide the ultimate solution for how to provide a WordPress plugin bug report – if that existed, it would have been solved long before today; however, I do want to share a couple of things that I’ve noticed.
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