# Inline Documentation Standards

Inline documentation provides a good resource for core developers in future development, and other developers when learning about WordPress. It also provides the information necessary to populate the [WordPress developer code reference](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/).

> **I don’t need to document my code. I wrote all of it – know it like the back of my hand.**
>
> “I would argue that, separately, documentation *is also* for you, the developer. I’ve found quite often that my inline documentation can be a very effective breadcrumb trail when establishing one’s own intent, particularly with regard to complex function arguments and usage. And it’s also helpful to return to a function two years later and find a paragraph in the inline documentation that describes, in meticulous fashion, something that I otherwise would have had to rediscover all over again.” *– Nacin*

## Language-specific Standards

- [PHP Documentation Standards](https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/inline-documentation-standards/php/ "PHP Documentation Standards")
- [JavaScript Documentation Standards](https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/inline-documentation-standards/javascript/)

## Resources

- [Inline documentation](https://jjj.blog/2012/06/inline-documentation/) – why you should