Title: Coding Standards
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Coding Standards

 *  [Raul Illana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raulillana/)
 * (@raulillana)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-standards/)
 * Hi Joost.
 * Your plugin is adding two custom fields to user profiles named `googleplus` and`
   twitter`.
 * As [Writing a Plugin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin) and [WordPress Coding Standards](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards)
   say, those custom fields must be preceded by some type of prefix (like `yoast_`)
   relative to the plugin, avoiding conflict with other plugins and also themes.
 * We’re having an issue because of this. Will you be so kind to fix it, please?:_)
 * Best regards.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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