For those new to WordPress development, or theme authors who want to understand more than pasting into functions.php, this discussion will cover some best practices around writing code for WordPress.

What are the WordPress Coding Standards, and why should you use them? What’s the best way of including scripts and styles? Is there a better way of handling AJAX? We’ll talk about questions like these, and start you on your way to writing clean, beautiful code.

This repo is a slideshow with notes for the presentation above. Feel free to browse and contribute.