{"id":471,"date":"2010-06-01T21:44:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T03:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordcampchicago.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2011-04-21T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T02:59:46","slug":"speaker-spotlight-pete-mall-beginners-plugin-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-pete-mall-beginners-plugin-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Pete Mall: Beginners Plugin Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete is a self-described WordPress ninja and has been contributing to  WordPress since 2005. He provides WordPress consulting services through  Joint Forces Technology Solutions (<a href=\"http:\/\/jointforcestech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">jointforcestech.com<\/a>). Pete has worked with multiple  Fortune 100 brands, as well as smaller companies. He is known for  turning around troubled development projects and improving the  productivity and dependability of the team. You can follow his rumblings  on his personal blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/developersmind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">developersmind.com<\/a> or catch him on Twitter @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/petemall\" target=\"_blank\">petemall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,'Arial sans-serif';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,'Arial  sans-serif';\"><strong>Beginning Plugin  Development<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>This session will be an introduction to writing a  WordPress plugin with a real-world example showing how to create a  simple plugin.\u00a0 Pete will be presenting his topic: Beginners Plugin Development on the second day of WordCamp Chicago &#8211; Sunday, June 6th at 11:30 am in the Developers Track.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete is a self-described WordPress ninja and has been contributing to WordPress since 2005. He provides WordPress consulting services through Joint Forces Technology Solutions (jointforcestech.com). Pete has worked with multiple Fortune 100 brands, as well as smaller companies. He is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/speaker-spotlight-pete-mall-beginners-plugin-development\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight &#8211; Pete Mall: Beginners Plugin Development<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3037239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53,5413],"tags":[3558,144,5484,146,418478],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-blog","category-wcchicago-2010","tag-beginner","tag-development","tag-pete-mall","tag-plugin","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v9vU-7B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3037239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}