Not Beginner

A Peek into the World of WordPress Plugin Development

The ability to create a simple plugin shell, which can be used as a site plugin, is a valuable skill to obtain if you need to maintain or create WordPress websites. This session will give you a quick introduction to the construction of WordPress plugins. As we build a simple plugin to add a widget to your sidebars, I’ll summarize the resources needed to help you create your own plugins.

While you will definitely will need to learn PHP, HTML and CSS to create plugins on your own, no coding ability is required for this session. You will be able to create your first plugin by pasting the example code into files on your web site.

Presented by Rick Radko.  Rick is the founder of R-Cubed Design Forge, where he develops and designs web sites and applications using open source software. Rick specializes in custom development and multilingual websites.

Meeting Details:

This is a meetup in our “advanced” series. Anyone at any experience level is welcome to attend, but there will be an expectation in the presentations and discussion that attendees have some prior knowledge of, and working experience with WordPress.

Senate Room, 6th Floor – Robertson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive.  Robertson Hall marked on Google: http://goo.gl/maps/1UkxO

Parking on campus requires payment, but all of the lots, including the garage just to the north of Roberson Hall, cap at $7 for the evening after 5pm. http://www5.carleton.ca/parking/visitors/parking-rates/

No donations for this meeting!  (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

Agenda

7:00 – General announcements

7:10 – Presentation

8:15 – Wrap-up

“How do you deploy?”

Open sessions & round table discussion on WordPress website deployment strategies. Come out and chat about how you do it, or sit back and see how everyone else does it.

There are no “scheduled” presenters. Anyone who wishes to present about WordPress deployment strategies is welcome to present. Just show up ready to go, preferably with a laptop if you have slides. Please keep your presentation to between 5 and 10 min.

A suggested, but not required, presentation format:

1 – Who you are?

2 – What software do you use to make your deployments work?

3 – What does your dev process look like?

4 – What does your initial launch look like?

5 – What does your incremental update look like?

6 – What is good about your process?

7 – What could be better about it?

Meeting Details:

This is a meetup in our advanced series, and while anyone is welcome to attend, there will be an expectation in the presentations and discussion that attendees have some knowledge of WordPress.

Senate Room, 6th Floor – Robertson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive

No donations for this meeting! (We normally ask for a $4 donation to help cover the cost of the room and our Meetup fees, which total about $450/year)

Agenda

7:00 – General announcements

7:10 – Presentation

8:00 – Discussion for future advanced meetings