Hi there folks!
I’m a member of a couple discords, Curseforge and wowinterface forums but I’m not finding documtation concerning functions we can access or historical conversation relevant to those starting out with writing wow addons.
Is there a wiki, forum, discord, etc that is a safe place for those starting to work with addons? I’ve got a ton of questions and just not sure where is the best place to get them answered.
Thanks for your time!
I assume these are the couple discords?
Have you seen
https://www.reddit.com/r/wowaddons/
This will kind of help you out with that
Nope, just gotta stumble around, ask questions in those two discords and tinker.
There is also an Blizzard API forum with a “Getting started thread”
The Blizzard WoW UI and Macro thread has relevant sticky posts too
It has important threads like this UI Add-On Development Policy
I learned basic API calls from an old site called wow-programming.com. It hasn’t been updated since Wrath. I think it’s a companion to a book.
Hi there Zemus, that site doesn’t come up and the wayback machine has no record of it. Perhaps you’re misremembering the URL?
Take out the hyphen, it’s still up. I couldn’t remember the exact URL.
Unfortunately there’s nothing anywhere close to as cohesive as the documentation for various “real” platforms, e.g. iOS, Android, and Windows. I wish that weren’t the case, because as a mobile app dev I’m used to being able to pull up a reasonably fleshed out page for any given task/function/etc which is only occasionally true for WoW UI stuff. Takes a lot of the fun out of addon development.