How secure is your WordPress theme or plugin? Are you confident that you have protected yourself, your clients or your users against the most common hacks? Validating, sanitizing and escaping are techniques that are foundational to the security of your website, application or software product. Learn how WordPress makes it easy for you to secure…… Read More
Presented At: Birmingham
Advanced WordPress Plugin Development
Developing or maintaining plugins that are used by large audiences requires a certain degree of fool-proofing and forward-thinking. Beyond best practices, there are a number of architecture considerations that impact ease of maintenance, usability and your ability to provide higher levels of support. We will explore a number of high-volume plugins and what they have…… Read More
Doing AJAX in WordPress
Preview of presentation: WordPress makes AJAX easy and all too often developers write their own code for handling AJAX. The purpose of this presentation is to walk developers through the process of implementing basic AJAX functionality in themes and plugins. Topics covered will include best practices, client-side AJAX requests via jQuery, server-side processing of requests with WordPress action…… Read More