WordPress developers' biggest (or most common) coding mistakes • Post Status

David Bissett recently posed this question on Twitter:

My fellow WP folks: What do you think is the biggest/most common CODING mistake #WordPress developers make?
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) April 23, 2019

@john-james-jacoby offered “Typos,” which probably wins for most common mistake.

For most consequential mistakes, there are a lot of top contenders:

overflowing transient name length. gets everyone at some point.
— Andrey Savchenko (@Rarst) April 23, 2019

Not understanding the query costs of high level helper functions and nesting them in loops (snippet from a refactor) pic.twitter.com/GSM8LPGama
— Phil Palmieri (@philpalmieri) April 24, 2019