Description of skill set "Coding for major contrib projects"

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This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.


This skill set could include the following skills (in no particular order):

  • Writing Views handlers
  • Writing Views plugins
  • Writing CTools plugins
  • Writing Rules extensions
  • Declaring new entities to Entity API
  • Writing Context plugins
  • Writing Feeds plugins

It might also include things that are Drupal core stuff, and not contrib:

  • Declaring new entities
  • Declaring new fields
  • Declaring new widgets
  • Declaring new field formatters
  • Declaring new form/render elements (part of "front end development" skilll set?)
  • Declaring new tokens