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In this session you’ll learn how to build your first WordPress widget. We’ll go step-by-step through the best practices for building a simple widget, talk about different existing widgets and some possibilities for new custom widgets.<\/p>\n

We will discuss when a widget should be built into a theme or plugin, and when a widget should be its own plugin. When we’re through with this talk you’ll be ready to unleash your own widgets out into the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this session you’ll learn how to build your first WordPress widget. We’ll go step-by-step through the best practices for building a simple widget, talk about different existing widgets and some possibilities for new custom widgets. We will discuss when a widget should be built into a theme or plugin, and when a widget should … Continue reading Building Your First Widget<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307839,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1402844400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[829751],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[155857,8858],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-835633","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-architect","wcb_track-developers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"June 15, 2014","time":"10:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"829751","slug":"josh-leuze","name":"Josh Leuze","link":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/josh-leuze\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/835633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/835633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835634,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/835633\/revisions\/835634"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/829751"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jleuze"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=835633"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicago.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=835633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}