wclax 2015 presentation | level up as a developer
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Becoming a WordPress Artisan
Developerleveling up as a developer
Roy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com
I am not going to shield you from the
truth.
Be Warned
WE ARE AWESOME
WordPress developer at Disney and the co-founder of
My first install of WordPress was 0.7 and been a user & developer since
Roy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com
Who is this geek?
a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making
things by hand
What is an Artisan?noun
WordPress Artisan Developer
Do you want to be an Artisan?
Learn which tools are best for your
workflow
Pay for them
Tools
Step out of your comfort code
Stop Copy Pasting blocks of code
StackOverflow is not always the answer
Code
GoogleFuBefore you Google:
Don’t think about the whole problem, think about the parts that make up the whole.
Drill down piece by piece of the code, You may find that you know most of it
GoogleFu
“How to use a JavaScript file in a
WordPress Theme” “wp_enqueue_script”
Debugging
console.log() breakpoints
Browser Web Inspector is very awesome
Level Up your code debugging
Stop Using WordPress
You can learn a lot by just taking a few steps away from WordPress and trying to develop something else
What can I learn?
Front vs. Back End Coding MVC architecture
New PHP Frameworks that might suit for your clients New frameworks not even built on a LAMP stack
so much more
Coming back to WP
Not everyone comes back, but those that do are usually the ones that produce the best code, the best talks, and really get you thinking outside the
WordPress bubble
The dip sucks. Power through
Everyone has a “dip” Developer “Dip” =
Learning something new
Get through it as efficiently as possible
EFFORT
RESULTS
Awesome Resources
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Coda 2 Sublime Text GitHub WP Codex Gravity Forms AWP Facebook Group TutsPlus.com
Thank You Find me online: Twitter: @royboy789 Github: @royboy789 CodeCavalry.com/royboy789
Roy Sivan Twitter/Github - @royboy789 roysivan.com | arcctrl.com