Introduction to WordPress Hooks (Talk at WordCamp Columbus 2015)

UPDATE (2015/08.19):  The video of this talk is now available on WordPress.tv!

Thank you to everyone who came out to my Hooked on WordPress:  An Introduction to Actions and Filters talk at WordCamp Columbus.  I hope it gave you a good background to get started on creating your own plugins.   The slides I used during the talk can be found here:

I also want to share a few links that you might find useful:

• Plugin API – This is the official documentation from the WordPress Codex for all the functions related to hooks.
• Adam Brown’s WordPress Hook Database – There are hundreds of actions and filters in WordPress’ core. Adam has put together a comprehensive database of them.
• How to write a WordPress plugin – Francis Yaconiello has written a post documenting how to create a WordPress plugin as a class.  This was the approach I talked about that can help avoid naming conflicts in your functions.
• WordPress Hook Firing Sequence – Rachel Vasquez has done some excellent research into the order in which WordPress’ core actions take place.  This is a long read, but very insightful!
• How to Override E-Mail Recipients in WordPress Development Environment – A blog post I wrote earlier this year that shows how to use the wp_mail filter to ensure that your users don’t receive e-mail messages while you’re developing or testing your website in an environment other than the production server.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.