WordPress Engineer Test

This test has been designed to test the fundamentals required for WordPress Engineers to work at Flicker Leap. This test is continuously being updated to further test the fundamentals of being a WordPress Engineer.

Objective of task

Create a WordPress plugin that creates a custom post type for events. It must include a title, content, featured image and a meta box, which saves an event date, ticket price and number of tickets available. You then need to expose that meta data in the API.

Note: you do not need to worry about the front-end (e.g. template files, etc.) or the style of the post editor. Outcome of task

For the test to be successful, we should be able to install the plugin on a fresh installation of WordPress. In other words, we’re looking for the following:

• Ability to create a functioning WordPress plugin
• Ability to create a custom post type
• Ability to create a meta box
• Ability to show fields that save to post meta
• Ability to expose data in the WP Rest API
• Understanding of WordPress coding standards
• Code that is understandable and easy to read

Tasks

0. Fork this repo - you will be saving the code to your repo

1. Create a plugin using best practices for WordPress Plugins

2. Register a custom post type with meta data

3. Expose the custom post type and meta in the WordPress REST API

4. Update the readme and add a suggestion to improve this test

5. Send the link to your repo back to us

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License

This test is released under the MIT Public License.

Note: The "About" section in README.md not be edited or deleted without permission. For details, please see License.