WordPress is awesome, but almost every site needs plugins to make the site do what it needs to do. And while there are tens of thousands of plugins out there, every day WordPress developers need a new plugin or to make a plugin to modify a plugin or theme. Learn the basics of how to create plugins, using the WordPress plugins API and your next steps to becoming a WordPress plugin developer. In this talk we will cover what should go in plugin vs. themes, how to make plugins, why you should break your code up into lots of small plugins and the basics of plugin development.
This is a beginner level talk, aimed at anyone who has ever used WordPress. It is helpful if you know PHP or JavaScript basics — what a function and variable are, etc. — but that is not required. This talk is for site owners who need to effectively manage bits of custom code, and those who want to get started in plugin development.