Title: Libraries for plugin development
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Libraries for plugin development

 *  [Rafael Matos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelsm/)
 * (@rafaelsm)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/libraries-for-plugin-development/)
 * Hello people!
 * I’m new to the world of plugin development, but not new to php world. I’m creating
   a buddypress plugin for forum posts moderation (people can report a post as inappropriate),
   I know that there’s bp-moderation, but it doesn’t really work.
    Anyway… I’ve 
   finished the front-end part, and now I’m coding the back-end and there’s something
   buggin me a lot: I want to do something as simple as showing a grid with posts
   that have a defined value in the database table, that’s all. But I couldn’t find
   anything that helped me in creating a grid with pagination or sort, and for the
   other plugins that I’ve checked, they all do everything “by hand”, coding html
   with php like crazy, with no abstration, taking hours to do something that has
   been done repeatedly by other people many many times. So the question is, isn’t
   there a library, or something like a framework to help us developers in creating
   plugins for wordpress?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [krisjay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krisjay/)
 * (@krisjay)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/libraries-for-plugin-development/#post-1667970)
 * Hey Rafael Matos,
 * I myself have never come accross any ‘framework’ to say, but I have seen some
   plugins (don’t think they work), and the general write-ups about plugin development.
 * Every plugin that I’ve made ([my profile](http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/krisjay/)),
   I basicly have to code by hand (now I have snippets I’ve saved while developing).
 * Just have a look at some plugins in [Extend](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/)
   that are doing some actions close to what you want (that’s the beauty of open
   source), and try to replicate them in your own manner.
 *  Thread Starter [Rafael Matos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelsm/)
 * (@rafaelsm)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/libraries-for-plugin-development/#post-1667972)
 * Hi krisjav,
 * I see… well it’s a shame, the more easier is to create a pluggin better and more
   numerous they’ll be, since people will spend they time on quality instead of 
   picky things.
    But I’m definitely going to check some of your pluggins to make
   my life easyer 🙂 thanks!
 *  [Xephan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xephan/)
 * (@xephan)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/libraries-for-plugin-development/#post-1668000)
 * I’ve noted some plugin frameworks like Xavisys/Alkivia but not actually looked
   at them… mostly because my experience with frameworks is that they usually cost
   me more time in the long run than coding a needed component myself.
 * So IMO, it’s better to just develop your own library for things you always use/
   do than to spend time learning a new framework just for that one or two convenient
   features. It helps to deepen the understanding of the actual platform instead
   of the framework.

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 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/libraries-for-plugin-development/#post-1668000)
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