Title: Tools to develop wordpress
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# Tools to develop wordpress

 *  [Fiable.biz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiablebiz/)
 * (@fiablebiz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tools-to-develop-wordpress/)
 * Sorry for this newbie question. What tools (IDE etc.) would you recommend to 
   begin developing for WordPress? Specifically, I would like to modify the plugin“
   pods”, and, lost in all these files, I don’t know how to find where a PHP function
   defined in the plugin is called.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [Fiable.biz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiablebiz/).
      Reason: spelling mistake

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 *  [Ian Misner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianmisner/)
 * (@ianmisner)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tools-to-develop-wordpress/#post-13811650)
 * Hey [@fiablebiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiablebiz/)!
 * There’s an absolute ton to learn so you may want to start out by defining your
   question a little bit more specifically. That being said, I have a few recommendations
   to throw your way anyways:
 * – Most developers I know use PHPStorm by JetBrains for the robust IDE features,
   like the smart navigation and the debugging assistance
    – That being said, I 
   use Visual Studio Code with the [WP Intellisense add-on by John Billion](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnbillion.vscode-wordpress-hooks)
   and it’s both free and useful.
 * And for the more broad question of how you should start developing for WordPress?
   I’d learn this resource deeply first, I think: [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/)
 *  Thread Starter [Fiable.biz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fiablebiz/)
 * (@fiablebiz)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tools-to-develop-wordpress/#post-13811754)
 * Thank you very much for your quick answer and your useful wordpress link. I’ve
   begun reading [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins).
   But you suggest proprietary IDEs to develop an opensource CSM. Hmmm… I hope I
   will find an opensource tool to find the places a PHP function is called and 
   manage my small project. I also discovered recently PHP documentor, which helps.
 *  [Ian Misner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianmisner/)
 * (@ianmisner)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tools-to-develop-wordpress/#post-13811854)
 * Visual Studio Code and the add-on I recommended are free. VSC is on the MIT license
   and John Billion’s add-on is open source.
 * That being said, I’m not convinced the license of your development software is
   relevant to whether it should be used when developing for an open source project.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tools-to-develop-wordpress/#post-13811991)
 * I’m also using VSC, though I have used Atom, too.

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