Hacking WordPress: Introduction to custom plugins and advanced templating
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For those of you who don't know (which may very well be all of you right now), I will be presenting a talk at WordCamp Montreal July 12th. The title of the presentation, if you haven't guessed, is "Hacking WordPress: Introduction to custom plugins and advanced templating". I'll explain how you can use your own plugins and functions to make your WordPress site sing. In other words, it will basically be a relatively improvised primer on the following things:
- Introduction to creating WordPress plugins
- Managing your sidebars and widgets
- Using WordPress' Codex and API documentation
- Hacking up your templates to use all the power provided by WordPress
If you're not registered yet, you have until July 9th to do so on EventBrite. For more information regarding WordPress Montreal 2009, check out the official site, mailing list, blog, Facebook group and Twitter account or see what's going on by looking up the #wcmtl tag.
This will be my first talk on WordPress. I started working with WordPress as a platform not too long ago, when working at CloudRaker with Stéphane Caron, who happened to have a really nice jQuery plugin to replicate the behavior of the famous Lightbox, called prettyPhoto. Since WordPress uses jQuery (and so do most of its plugins), I figured it'd be a good idea to integrate his plugin in WordPress while adding flexibility. That's how it all started. I still can't believe I'll be telling anyone my take on how to do things, but it's happening!
I'll probably be using this post to mark my progress in the elaboration of my talk. I'd love to get feedback and comments on what I'm doing since this is a first for me. Stay tuned!
