My journey took me from learning HTML in a weekend to now being a full time developer. I share what I've learned through the years and hopefully give you some tips on how to level up and become a better developer.

1. 1
Becoming a
WordPress Artisan
Developer
leveling up as a developer
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2. I am not going to
shield you from the
truth.
Be Warned

4. WE ARE AWESOME

5. WordPress developer at
Disney
and the co-founder of
My first install of WordPress was
0.7 and been a user &
developer since
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Who is this geek?

6. a worker in a skilled
trade, especially one
that involves making
things by hand
What is an Artisan?
noun

7. WordPress Artisan Developer

8. Do you want to be an Artisan?

9. Learn which tools
are best for your
workflow
Pay for them
Tools

10. Step out of your comfort code
Stop Copy Pasting blocks of code
StackOverflow is not always the answer
Code

11. GoogleFu
Before you Google:
Don’t think about the whole problem, think about
the parts that make up the whole.
Drill down piece by piece of the code,
You may find that you know most of it

12. GoogleFu
“How to use a
JavaScript file in a
WordPress Theme”
“wp_enqueue_script”

13. Debugging
console.log() breakpoints
Browser Web Inspector is very awesome
Level Up your code debugging

14. Stop Using WordPress
You can learn a lot by just taking a few
steps away from WordPress and trying
to develop something else

15. What can I learn?
Front vs. Back End Coding
MVC architecture
New PHP Frameworks that might suit for your clients
New frameworks not even built on a LAMP stack
so much more

16. Coming back to WP
Not everyone comes back, but those that do are
usually the ones that produce the best code, the
best talks, and really get you thinking outside the
WordPress bubble

17. The dip sucks. Power through
Everyone has a “dip”
Developer “Dip” =
Learning something new
Get through it as
efficiently as possible
EFFORT
RESULTS

18. Awesome Resources
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Coda 2
Sublime Text
GitHub
WP Codex
Gravity Forms
AWP Facebook Group
TutsPlus.com

19. Thank You
Find me online:
Twitter: @royboy789
Github: @royboy789
CodeCavalry.com/royboy789
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