WordCamp San Francisco has announced their final round of speakers, and that includes me. I’m giving an advanced development talk on Saturday calledĀ Current User Can Watch This Talk. Props to fellow lead developer Mark Jaquith (who is also speaking) for coming up with that clever talk title. Here’s the description:
At first glance, the WordPress roles and capabilities system is simple. Users have roles, roles have capabilities, and plugins can make simple changes to them. Done, right? Not quite: Youāve been doing it the hard way. A deeper look inside the API reveals a surprising amount of flexibility, including the single most powerful (and dangerous) filter in WordPress. In this talk, youāll learn how capabilities are āmappedā to other capabilities, and what the difference between primitive and meta capabilities means for your plugins and custom post types. Weāll explore the true hidden powers of the API, like using capability mapping to selectively grant and revoke privileges on the fly, making complex user management more maintainable.
The single most powerful and dangerous filter in WordPress? That sounds both ominous and awesome if you ask me.
If you’re interested in presentations aimed at advanced developers at WordCamp San Francisco this year, make sure to also catch the illustrious Mike Adams and Andy Skelton. Mike is talking about security in “Three Security Issues You Thought Youād Fixed.” Andy will be presenting a new approach to performance in “How pcntl_fork() Can Save Us.” I’m really looking forward to what they have to say and you should do.
I’m also looking forward to talks by Will Norris, Nikolay Bachiyski, and Helen Hou-Sandi. Together, those are six names who have greatly influenced not just WordPress development, but my own work and the contributions of many others. Check out the full line-up here and here. A few tickets are still availableĀ for the July 26ā27 conference.
I also hope to see a lot of people at the Contribute Day on Sunday. I’m helping organize that, and WordPress 3.7 will be underway by then ā more to come on both soon.
Uh oh. Now I have to come up with three good ones š
Where can we find the slides from the talk you gave at WordCamp SF? (Which was awesome, btw)
I still believe WordPress roles and capabilities system are simple. I think i will have to have a peek into this.
However where can I get the details?