Title: Plugin development approach
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin development approach

 *  [tallrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallrob/)
 * (@tallrob)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-development-approach/)
 * Greetings plugin developers.
 * I have recently setup my wordpress site at [http://www.robertphilp.com](http://www.robertphilp.com),
   and as a working PHP developer I thought I might have a go at developing a plugin
   or 2 for my own site, and perhaps for public consumption.
 * I just wondered how people approach the development? Are developers running a
   local install of wordpress on XAMPP or a similar local environment? Is there 
   a generally agreed or recommended approach to architecting and testing a plugin
   through a beta process etc?
 * I would be interested to hear how people approach their plugin development work.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-development-approach/#post-992417)
 * > I just wondered how people approach the development? Are developers running
   > a local install of wordpress on XAMPP or a similar local environment?
 * XAMPP seems popular approach…
 * [Writing_a_Plugin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin)
    [Plugin_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API)
 * Join the [wp-hackers mailing list](http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists).
 *  Thread Starter [tallrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallrob/)
 * (@tallrob)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-development-approach/#post-992524)
 * Thanks Michael, I have been using XAMPP at work and for personal project for 
   a couple of years and it’s always been fine, so I guess I’ll stick with it!
 * Is there a recommended approach for beta testing plugins? I am going to take 
   a gentle approach and do something VERY simple to start with but obviously it’d
   be nce to have other people test a plugin (on older WP versions etc) rather than
   just myself on 2.7 on my local machine.
 * Cheers.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-development-approach/#post-992549)
 * That kind of request (help testing plugin) has been seen on the wp-hackers email
   list.
 *  Thread Starter [tallrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallrob/)
 * (@tallrob)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-development-approach/#post-992567)
 * Thanks Michael, I’ll check it out.

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