Introducing our Fourth Speaker for WordCamp Mumbai 2017 – Sudar Muthu.
In this talk, Sudar will talk about the various developer tools that he uses to increase his productivity as a WordPress developer. Sudar has been developing for WordPress for more than half a decade and over a period of time he has found various developer tools that helps him to increase his productivity.
This will be a talk more about his experience using these tools and detailing what worked and what didn’t work rather than just talking about these tools and giving an introduction.
Tools that he will be covering are the following:
- wp-cli – To efficiently interact with WordPress admin, even over SSH
- phpcs – To quickly catch any WordPress formatting or coding errors
- xDebug – To debug performance and other code issues
- vagrant – To setup proper local development setup
- phpUnit – To run Unit tests
- IDE – PhpStorm and Vim
About Sudar Muthu
Sudar Muthu works as a Senior Web Engineer with 10up, a WordPress based web agency and WordPress VIP partner.
Sudar is involved in WordPress plugin development for more than 8 years and has released about 2 dozen WordPress plugins. Details at https://profiles.wordpress.org/sudar/#content-plugins
Sudar has also contributed to all major WordPress releases starting from 4.3
He blogs about WordPress at http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/ and is available in Twitter as @sudarmuthu