October 28, 2020 — We will start at the beginning to understand what a plugin does and why you would want one. We will answer common questions like:
– Where do you find plugins?
– How do you know which plugins are good?
– How many plugins should you have?
– How can you find out more about a plugin before you download or purchase it?
– How can you work with a plugin developer to fix issues you are having with the plugin?

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October 9, 2020 — In this video I’ll walk you through the steps to add a custom post field to the plugin that we have built in the previous videos.

October 9, 2020 — In this video we will override the single template file from our plugin and customize it to fit our plugin needs.

October 9, 2020 — In this video we will keep working on our custom plugin. We will use WP-CLI to add custom taxonomies to our plugin.

October 9, 2020 — Build a custom plugin with WP-CLI is straight forward. We can use the `wp scaffold plugin` command to generate the base files for our plugin.

July 11, 2020 — If you’ve ever wanted to build your own plugin for WordPress, this is the session for you. We’re going to start from scratch and work our way up.
First, we’ll take a look at the basic requirements of a plugin. Next we’ll take our example plugin idea and break it into the various components and steps that we’ll need. We’ll code up the plugin together and install it on our sites, debugging any problems that arise. Finally, we’ll look at ways that we could further extend our plugin.
This tutorial assumes some HTML and CSS knowledge, but you don’t already need to be familiar with writing PHP or JavaScript.

June 16, 2020 — En 2011, creé un plugin conocido de gestión de boletines para WordPress, lo dejé en 2015 y desde entonces he trabajado como freelance.

Después de un tiempo, utilizando otras tecnologías fuera de WordPress, he vuelto a la carga y actualmente estoy desarrollando un plugin de gestión de citas para negocio.

Desde 2011 muchas cosas han cambiado :

WordPress
– Las tecnologías web
– Las expectativas de los usuarios
– El repositorio de WordPress

Hay que renovarse para crear un plugin de calidad en 2020.

Utilizando mis pasadas experiencias, hablaré sobre las motivaciones para crear un plugin y las distintas formas de abordar el desarrollo, viendo cada parte del proceso de creación desde la idea hasta el lanzamiento.

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March 30, 2020 — Whether you manage a large site or a small one, if you write your own code one of the most tedious parts can be getting started. This talk will show you techniques such as scaffolding tools and others to get you a fully functional WordPress plugin with unit tests, continuous integration, a local development environment and more with just a single command. It will help you stop rebuilding the wheel so you can focus on the functionality you need and can be extended to themes, libraries or whatever else you need.

January 21, 2020 — Due to the availability of free and premium themes, it becomes difficult for people to choose the right theme for the creation of their websites/blogs. The need for education on the right themes for each type of website/blog is highly required as the number of websites built with the WordPress CMS is increasing with each day.

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November 4, 2019 — Extending WordPress above and beyond the core functionality is part of what makes WordPress so powerful. However, the sheer number of plugins available can be overwhelming. A strategy for evaluating plugins makes both developing managing WordPress easier.

In this presentation, attendees will learn strategies and tools for choosing one plugin over another. We’ll also look at paid plugins versus free and find out if you get what you paid for. We’ll also look at how to manage plugin updates and evaluate security. We’ll find out how to research plugin security history and identify risky functionality.

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