After more than 10 years working behind the scenes on multi-million dollar web applications, John Hawkins has recently started helping individuals and small businesses expand their web presence with custom-tailored presentations that focus on the audience’s specific needs.
John frequently delivers 5,000 foot view concepts to business owners or step-by-step user functions to the people behind the scenes. Each presentation is developed individually to pinpoint the needs of the audience.
In August of 2009, John spoke to a group of developers at WordCamp Portland on the topic of building a plugin for WordPress.
John demonstrates the basics of constructing a plugin, designing it to make the changes you want, and then using that plugin to alter your WordPress site in a persistent way. He Includes some basic discussion on hooks and functions, as well as some sample code.
Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.
