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Ready to start charging for building sites in WordPress? Welcome! WordPress has a great community, and there are endless resources available to you (both free and paid). You’ll be making clients happy in no time. In my five years of WordPress development, I’ve made my share of mistakes, and fixed my share of other developers’ mistakes as well. In this session, I’ll share tips on becoming a better WordPress consultant, and on empowering clients with WordPress. Bad or lazy development practices set your clients up for failure, because other developers have to start over when they inherit your work—or, worse: the client’s site breaks and you’re not around to fix it anymore. You can do better. This session is for you if: - You know know HTML/CSS, are somewhat proficient in PHP and JavaScript. - Almost all of your projects start with existing themes. - Almost all functionality in your projects come from existing plugins. - You’re working with budgets under $10,000. Let’s build a better web together!
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Design & DevelopmentGetting Started
@cliffseal
THIS IS FOR YOUIF Good
HTML,CSS
DecentJavascript, PHP
THIS IS FOR YOUIF
Your Projects(Mostly) Existing
Themes & Plugins
Under $10K
SOON
START DEFINING“DESIGN”
Step 1
ORCONSULTATION DEVELOPMENT
IS IT THEME
?
PICKBETTERTHEMES
Step 2
USEPLUGINSCORRECTLY
Step 3
RATING DATE
VET PLUGINS BYDOWNLOADS
DOING IT RIGHT™
if ( !needed_plugin() && is_known($how_to) ) {
// Do it yourself!$plugin = New custom_plugin();
}
FORGET THEBUILT-INEDITOR
Step 4
HELPYOURCLIENTS
Step 5
ARE YOU WRITING CODE?
THEN WRITEAWESOME CODE*
*see: poetry
CHILD THEMING& PLUGIN BUILDING
Step 1
UNDERSTAND CORE
CONCEPTS
Step 2
USE NATIVE FUNCTIONS &
APIS
Step 3
COMMUNITY SHARES TOOLS
Step 4
10,000HOURS
Step 5
WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER.
Thank you
