Alain is a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.

This session presents a detailed overview of the exact execution flow that launches your WordPress site on each page request, giving you detailed insights into:

the order in which files are loaded
how & why the different global constants are set up
what functionality is “pluggable” and can be replaced by custom implementations
how the database is connected
how caching is set up
how localization is set up and loaded
how a multisite (network) is identified and loaded
how the Plugin API is initialized

Presentation Slides »