7 Habits of Highly Effective WordPress Developers

If you are just learning how to code, or are a seasoned developer, there are some important habits that will serve you well during your WordPress development career. Beyond the high-level approach of Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, this presentation will walk you through 7 practical things you can do to become…… 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

WordPress Shortcodes

Shortcodes are commonplace in WordPress themes, plugins and even WordPress core. Whether you are a new developer looking to implement a shortcode for the first time, or are a seasoned pro; come join us as we delve into the pros, cons, gotchas, best practices and creative approaches to shortcodes. What are they? A shortcode is…… Read More

Getting Started with Vagrant

Learn how Vagrant, a tool for creating portable development environments, can help you: Easily setup a local development environment Match your local development environment to production and avoid surprises during deployment. Share development environments with team members and get new team members up and running in record time. Easily deploy code by using providers and…… Read More