WordPress & Plugins

Technical examination of WordPress core, plugins, themes, version dependencies, hooks, lifecycle and data-driven states.

Knowledge topic

Technical examination of WordPress core, plugins, themes, version dependencies, hooks, lifecycle and data-driven states. This overview brings together the published technical articles and provides entry points into further technical questions.

Professional boundary: The articles address technical and methodological questions. Legal evaluation and legal advice remain separate.

Technical articles

6 published

WordPress and Plugins as a Subject of Examination

How a WordPress installation is delimited as a technical subject of examination across core, plugins, themes, runtime, data, interfaces and explicit statement boundaries.

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WordPress Plugin and Theme Conflicts

How plugin and theme conflicts are reproduced using controlled activation states, hook evidence, debugging, counter-hypotheses and bounded causality statements.

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WordPress Versions, Plugin Dependencies and Compatibility

How WordPress, PHP and plugin versions, declared requirements, dependencies and runtime behaviour are compared without turning one tested matrix into a universal compatibility claim.

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WordPress Hooks, Actions, Filters and Execution Order

How hook registrations, callbacks, priorities and request-specific execution order are reconstructed by connecting static code with runtime evidence.

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WordPress Plugin Activation, Update and Migration

How activation, deactivation, updates, migrations and uninstall events are reconstructed from code versions, lifecycle hooks, persistent data and historical evidence.

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WordPress Data State, Options, Transients and WP-Cron

How options, transients, database state, WP-Cron and REST-related state are examined separately with time, provenance and execution limits kept explicit.

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Author's technical literature and publications

The following works provide additional technical and methodological context. They do not replace required primary sources, standards, manufacturer documentation or other independent specialist sources. Unpublished manuscripts, drafts and teaching materials are deliberately not presented here as public sources.

Mathias Ellmann, IT expert

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