If you’ve been thinking of creating free or premium WordPress themes, well, I hope I can help you avoid some of the mistakes I’ve made over the years. Even though I always strive for good clean code, there are pursuits that still somehow lead me into making mistakes. I hope that I can help you avoid them with the help of this article.
1. Don’t Gradually Reinvent The Wheel
Be careful when making things look nice — especially if you create a function that does almost exactly the same thing as another function just to wrap things nicely. The more prettifying code you add, the harder it gets to maintain. Keystrokes per minute isn’t the bottleneck of your performance as a developer when you spend most of your time thinking about code, not actually writing it.
