Blog Archives

Professional WordPress sites deserve a professional development and deployment process. “Doing it live” is not an option. I’ll take you through my ideal WordPress Git setup using WordPress Skeleton, then showcase a professional development and deployment workflow using WP Stack.

Version Control lets you track your files over time. Why should you care? So when you mess up you can easily get back to a previous working version! I will take you through what version control is, why it’s important … Continue reading WordPress & Version Control: An Introduction →

The session will discuss the idea of creating extensible, or modular plugins that can be easily interacted with and modified by other plugins, themes, developers–all without ever changing core code.

The next natural step in this WordPress evolution is that it will become a widely adopted web application development platform. With the vast improvements in WordPress 3.x and the introduction of custom post types, custom taxonomies, and custom fields, the … Continue reading Web Apps for the Masses →

Implementing a WordPress site can become exponentially complex as more people are involved in producing content, structuring layout,designing graphics, and developing features. In this session, you will learn how to navigate WordPress development when you are forced to work with … Continue reading Developing for Committees →

This talk will showcase some of the awesome helper functions in WordPress core. These functions will break down into three categories: Display helpers: This will cover some of the cooler display oriented helper functions, such as checked(), selected(), disabled(), paginate_links(), … Continue reading Awesome Helper Functions in WordPress Core →

This would be for people that know PHP and have written some in their theme functions file, but don’t know how to pull that out into a plugin.