Labs

Labs are hands-on coding projects that you build along with Tonya as she explains the code, concepts, and thought processes behind it. You can use the labs to further your code knowledge or to use right in your projects. Each lab ties into the Docx to ensure you have the information you need.

Each lab is designed to further your understanding and mastery of code. You learn more about how to think about its construction, quality, maintainability, programmatic and logical thought, and problem-solving. While you may be building a specific thing, Tonya presents the why of it to make it adaptable far beyond that specific implementation, thereby giving you the means to make it your own, in any context.

0 Videos Runtime March 14, 2017

Lab Introduction

In this lab, you will learn about how to make your code reusable. You’ll learn about what it is, why you want to change your mindset to build code in a reusable way, and then how to do it. You are a professional web developer. It’s your career and/or business. You need to make money. Designing your code to be reusable is a strategy to reduce your time and thus costs over the entire lifecycle of the code itself. In other words, it makes you more profitable. To get started, make sure that you have completed Part 1 and 2 […]

0 Videos Runtime February 18, 2017

PHP Examples – Laravel & Symfony

As you build your PHP expertise, you will likely grow into other frameworks and applications outside of WordPress. Laravel and Symfony are two awesome frameworks. Many times, you can pull in the modules and packages from their libraries even into a WordPress application. Yes, that’s how well these frameworks are built. Let’s take a quick look at the namespacing in each of these frameworks to show you how it’s used in the wild. You can also take a look at code construction and architecture too, i.e. to further your software building skills.

31 Videos 06:04:21 Runtime December 28, 2016

Making the Collapsible Content Plugin Reusable – Part 3

One of our jobs is to build quality code that is reusable again and again without changing the codebase. Ideally, we’d like to configure what’s different and have the codebase the same for all of our projects. In Part 3, you will convert the Collapsible Content plugin into the ModularConfiguration design pattern by moving all runtime configurable parameters into configuration files Then the codebase will be made reusable. The actual implementation then is determined by the configuration file that’s loaded. This approach will save you time.

0 Videos Runtime September 12, 2016

Laying Out the Theme’s Architecture – Part 2

In this episode, you will continue adding files to your new Genesis developer’s starter theme. You will be adding in the file PHP DocBlocks including the package name. You’ll learn about how to name your packages for the namespacing, which I show as YourCompanyName\ThemeName. Upon the completion of this episode, you will have the baseline theme file/folder architecture completed. This is now the shell of your theme, ready for you to start adding in the code into the appropriate buckets.