Beginner WordPress Development

This presentation serves as an introduction for current developers that may be interested in developing for WordPress. Target audience was for a refresh meeting. http://refreshwichitafalls.com

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1. Beginning WordPress Development By:  Eric  Binnion  
2. WordPress for Users •  Over  23,000+  Free  Plugins  in   WordPress  repository   •  Over  1,600  Free  Themes  in   WordPress  Repository   •  Premium  themes  can  be   bought  for  less  than  $100   •  WordPress  can  be  adapted   for  a  wide  range  of  uses  
3. WordPress for Developers •  WordPress  is  used  on  over   60,000,000  websites   worldwide.   •  Many  premium  themes  give   you  a  head  start   •  Plugins  can  help  with  heavy   liJing   •  WordPress  provides  many   funcKons  to  help  with   development  
4. Genesis
5. Standard
6. Bones
7. Headway
8. WordPress Template Hierarchy
9. Top wordpress plugins •  Gravity  Forms   •  WordPress  Seo  by  Yoast   •  Akismet   •  Outbrain   •  Wp  Super  Cache   •  Backup  Buddy   •  Broken  Link  Checker   •  WordPress  Backup  to   Dropbox   •  Jetpack   •  Smush.it  
10. WordPress Development Goodies WordPress  provides:   •  Enqueueing  Scripts  and   Styles   •  OpKons  and  SeWngs   APIs   •  Ajax  
11. Enqueueing Scripts and Styles Why  Enqueue??   •  Ensure  dependencies  have  already  been  loaded.   •  Be[er  cross-­‐plugin  funcKonality.  Ex.  –  Minifying  and   concatenaKng  
12. Enqueueing Scripts and Styles // Enqueue Javascript wp_enqueue_script( 'audience_intel_js', plugins_url( 'js/script.js' , __FILE__ ), array('jquery'), audience_intel_version, true ); // Enqueue Styles wp_register_style( 'audience-intel-style', plugins_url('css/plugin.css', __FILE__) ); wp_enqueue_style( 'audience-intel-style' );
13. Options and Settings API •  Allow  easy  way  to  save  opKons.  Ex:   – Theme  color  and  formaWng  choices   – Insert  Google  analyKcs  informaKon   •  Simple  Syntax   •  Can  be  a  single  value  or  an  array  of  data   •  Stored  in  OpKons  table  
14. Options and Settings API $data = array ( 'version' => ‘1.0’, 'featured' => ' ' ); add_option( 'audience_intel_options', $data );
15. Ajax in WordPress
16. Ajax in wordpress // PHP add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_audience_intel_feature', 'audience_intel_ajax_featured'); add_action('wp_ajax_audience_intel_feature', 'audience_intel_ajax_featured'); function audience_intel_ajax_featured(){ $options = get_option('audience_intel_options'); echo $options['featured']; exit; }
17. Ajax in wordpress // JS $.ajax({ type : "post", dataType : "html", url : audience_intel_js.ajaxurl, data : 'action=audience_intel_feature', success: function(response) { inner.html(response); } })