Whether you work alone or in a small team for your WordPress projects, it helps to get off on the right foot. This workshop-style talk will dig in to topics to help you including:
– tracking WordPress core and plugins through svn,
– theme and plugin starter templates and workflows,
– svn vs git,
– theme development best practices,
– custom post types and taxonomies,
– the best useful ways to accomplish common tasks.
We will basically share a ton of our extensive experience and toolkit to optimize and awesome-ify your WordPress development process.
This talk is developer-focused.
About Colin Vernon
Founder of Stresslimit design, Colin has directed, architected and developed CMS platforms, intranets, applications and websites of all shapes & sizes for over a decade. His company and projects focus beautiful, useful, multi-platform communication, based mostly on WordPress as an extensible web platform. As well as being a long-time advocate of web standards, open source and the semantic web, he has lots of WordPress experience: his plugins have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and he has worked directly with Automattic on a number of projects. He is now also part of the WordPress-powered PressBooks project which aims to merge web, e-pub and print publishing for small and large authors and publishers. He also runs a record label.
