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Welcome to our old Developer Documentation site.

This site is no longer used and is in read-only mode. Instead please go to our new Moodle Developer Resource site.

If you manage a Moodle site, or if you teach using Moodle, try the User documentation.

Overview

• Mission
• Roadmap
• Releases
• Development processes
• Category:Processes
• Developer meetings
• General developer forum
• Telegram Moodle Dev Chat room
• Developer credits/statistics
• Moodle User Experience (UX)
• Research
• Testing

More overview info

Plugin development

• Activity modules
• Blocks
• Themes
• Course formats
• Enrolment plugins
• Authentication plugins
• Repository plugins
• Filters

Full list of plugin types

Core APIs

• Access API
• Data manipulation API
• Exporter API
• File API
• Form API
• Logging
• Navigation API
• Page API
• Persistent API
• Output API
• String API
• Web service API functions

Full list of core APIs

Guidelines

• Moodle 4.0 developer update
• Coding guidelines
• Git use
• Contributing plugins
• Creating patches
• PHPUnit tests
• Acceptance testing
• Writing tests with PHPUnit
• Writing manual testing instructions for an issue
• Aria Guidelines
• HTML Guidelines
• Automatic class loading
• Templates
• Javascript Modules
• AJAX
• Communication Between Components

More guidelines

Developer tools

• Linting
• Setting up Eclipse
• Setting up Netbeans
• Firefox extensions

Full list of developer tools

Moodle App

• Moodle App Overview
• Moodle App Development Guide
• Moodle App Plugins Development Guide
• Moodle App Customization
• Moodle App FAQ

Full list of Moodle App documentation