Speakers: Matt Harris

Session

Plugging into Wordpress

Wordpress is a popular and powerful open source publishing engine which can be used for personal blogging or professional content management. It was built to be extended, allowing users to customise and expand it with additional features as they wish.

If you have ever wondered how to produce you own Wordpress plugin this session is for you. During this presentation you will be introduced to Wordpress, it's various forms, and then be taken on a tour through the various ways of plugging into the Wordpress engine.

Following a review of the key components of its Administrative Interface you will be shown the core plugin functions of Wordpress and how to use them. Finally you will see how to weave your own plugin which you can install on your own blog.

By the end of the session you will know how to:

• safely hook into the Wordpress engine.
• filter your Wordpress content.
• weave your own widget.
• know where to get more help.

Warning, this session will include code.

Bio

Matt Harris works in education and shares his time between business systems & network administration, and web development. His current passion is promoting web standards and incorporating new technologies in education and learning.

Outside of the office Matt shares his time between England and the USA. He can be found at BarCamps, Geek Nights and at web conferences. A self confessed gadget boy he can often be found teaching his robot how to talk and dance, but can also cook a great Beef Wellington.