{"id":1046,"date":"2016-02-17T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.mumbai.wordcamp.org\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2016-02-17T00:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:45:43","slug":"mahangu-weerasinghe-on-the-jugaad-way-wordpress-dev-for-non-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/mahangu-weerasinghe-on-the-jugaad-way-wordpress-dev-for-non-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahangu Weerasinghe on &#8220;The Jugaad Way: WordPress Dev for Non Developers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/574765639446884352\/PXmQ5Cq2.png?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mahangu-speaker\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/strong>Hailing from Colombo, Sri Lanka, <span class=\"il\">Mahangu<\/span> first found WordPress when he\u00a0stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. He\u00a0has used and provided support for every major release of the software,\u00a0and is excited about the impact the platform can have on South Asia.<br \/>\nThough once a high school English teacher, his desire to help make online\u00a0publishing more democratic led him to Automattic, where he now works\u00a0as a Happiness Engineer. He sincerely believes that stellar support\u00a0will play a pivotal role in helping WordPress power the next 25% of\u00a0the web!<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Mahangu went from 0 code contributions to 50+ commits. In this talk, he hopes\u00a0to draw on his\u00a0experiences getting there and debunk several myths about WordPress programming.<br \/>\nThis talk will assume a basic knowledge of HTML\/CSS, but nothing further, and will look to draw non-technical people down the rabbit hole of theme and plugin development by showing how you can make WordPress do a lot of cool things without a very deep understanding of PHP or programming in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailing from Colombo, Sri Lanka, Mahangu first found WordPress when he\u00a0stumbled upon 0.70 in the dark recesses of #wordpress on Freenode. He\u00a0has used and provided support for every major release of the software,\u00a0and is excited about the impact the platform can have on South Asia. Though once a high school English teacher, his desire to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/mahangu-weerasinghe-on-the-jugaad-way-wordpress-dev-for-non-developers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mahangu Weerasinghe on &#8220;The Jugaad Way: WordPress Dev for Non Developers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14396497,"featured_media":1050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers","tag-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-16-at-11.33.23-PM.png?fit=910%2C681&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14396497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mumbai.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}