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The Jugaad Way: WordPress Code for Non-Developers

on YouTube 23m
Talkat WordCamp Singapore 2016 · on Tuesday, 2016-09-06· [web-platform, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Mahangu Weerasinghe
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/ouQbQ7VyJ-c
slides:none on file

summary

Shows that non-developers can make concrete WordPress changes with four-line snippets: uses Code Snippets plugin or functions.php, copies Codex examples, and tests on a staging site. Demonstrates actions and filters to prepend text to post titles, add a custom login message, insert an admin notice, and inject a comment-form prompt — each example runs immediately and requires only cut‑and‑paste. Emphasizes hundreds of core hooks plus many theme/plugin hooks.

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chapters (9)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:37About me
  3. 3:03What is WordPress
  4. 5:10Hooks
  5. 6:05Action and Filter
  6. 9:58The Jugaad Way
  7. 10:44The Formula
  8. 11:35Login Message Filter
  9. 13:10Admin Screen Message

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