Code Developers

May 15th, 2006 by Angsuman Chakraborty

We are doing extensive work with WordPress, developing plugins, themes and also modifying the code base where necessary. In the process I found it necessary to create a online cross-reference of WordPress source along with capability to annotate / comment (AJAX based) as necessary.

I present you the first iteration of the effort - WordPress Source Cross Reference.

What can you do?

You can browse the source code by directory, search, cross-reference etc.
Find & browse class, function, variable and constant definitions
Find where a class, variable or function has been used.
Find list of all classes, functions, variables, constants etc.
Search - general or targeted
Comment / Annotate source etc.
Print colorized source code.
You can reference WordPress source directly from your WordPress related articles. Find the file name (can be easily guessed) and append the line number (or function name) after #.

Want more?

The source code is fetched from WordPress Subversion repository and updated every six hours. Then it is cross referenced (phpxref) and annotated (home grown commenting system for html). Your comments will appear instantly. No comment moderation is done or required.

Hope it is be useful to you.

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James (aka MacManX) Says:
May 15th, 2006 at 11:26 am

Owen released a similar tool, the WordPress Function Cross-reference, a few days ago. I think that you have both done an excellent job. The best way to get the community involved with WordPress development is to make life easier on them by providing cross-referencing tools such as these.

Angsuman Chakraborty Says:
May 15th, 2006 at 11:50 am

Thanks.

I missed reading about Owen’s tool. After looking at it now I can see the value addition of my tool boils down to having annotation / commenting support.

MacManX.com » Blogroll Dive: 5/22/06 Says:
May 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 am

[...] Angsuman launched “an online cross-reference of WordPress’ source code” with support for user-contributed annotations and comments. [...]

Yantar Says:
July 19th, 2007 at 6:12 am

is it still actual?