Speakers: Chris Flannagan

  • Chris Flannagan: Extending WooCommerce Like A Pro

    WordCamp Miami 2018Speaker: Chris Flannagan

    January 22, 2019 — This is an advanced PHP talk. Having worked with and extended several high use and highly customized WooCommerce sites, we will go over a core method for approaching large features being added to the shop. From complex gateways to intricate edge cases of user roles and currency management, there needs to be method to the madness. The session will include a fundamental approach as well as coding examples of handling advanced WooCommerce functionality.

  • Chris Flannagan: Extending WooCommerce Like A Pro

    WordCamp Jacksonville 2018Speaker: Chris Flannagan

    July 30, 2018 — Extending WooCommerce in small code snippets can help solve small problems. Extending WooCommerce like a pro requires planning your approach, a deeper understanding of the WooCommerce structure and implementing with well architected code. This session will provide developers with methods and a base knowledge for building their own, complex WooCommerce extensions and add-ons.

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  • Chris Flannagan: Do You Have A Launch Plan?

    WordCamp Montreal 2016Speaker: Chris Flannagan

    December 2, 2016 — Pretty exciting stuff, you’ve got a brand new website ready to launch! So what’s the plan? *crickets* Having an established plan for bringing your new site from staging to live is often overlooked and in turn causes minor to severe issues when you flip the switch. In this session we look at potential mishaps, how to avoid them and how to strategically build a launch plan.

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  • Chris Flannagan: Leveling Up From Plugin Hacker to Plugin Dev

    WordCamp Asheville 2016Speakers: Chris Flannagan, Plugin Developer

    August 19, 2016 — I’ve gone from trying to hack plugins to do what I want to actually developing my own from scratch over the past year. It’s challenging but very doable. This session will touch on the process I went through to become a much better WordPress engineer and a better coder. The presentation will discuss changing your thinking process when approaching WordPress development. We’ll touch on WordPress coding standards, how actions and filters work, and why they are so valuable. We’ll end by actually building a simple plugin step-by-step, in under 10 minutes.

    Take aways:

    Attendees will leave knowing they can improve their skills and how to start that process.
    An understanding of why it’s important to develop in WordPress using the proper methods and not hacking it together.
    A live demo of how simple developing a small plugin can be.

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