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Asked: 2026-06-12T17:47:46+00:00

I have a set of options I want to store in a WordPress plugin

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I have a set of options I want to store in a WordPress plugin and these names are likely never to change. However, I want to account for the eventuality that they do.

If myplugin is the name of the plugin I’m developing, I have an ‘option names’ named in the following style:

  • myplugin_preference_name
  • myplugin_preference_address

That sort of thing.

Anyway, there doesn’t appear to be any sort of authority on whether using a PHP define() call is OK in this case or not (in the context of a WordPress plugin).

I have already had a look through the WordPress coding standards:

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards

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  1. Editorial Team

    Constants in WordPress are normally written in uppercase.

    You do not find that in the coding standards, because WordPress coding standards are historically weakly documented and enforced, and I would not rely too much on that document.

    Also, you should consider to not introduce constants too much. You can not use a constant for everything. It needs to be one, and normally variables already do a good job.

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