First of all, we will discuss some technical skills, which a Wordpress plug-in developer must possess. You may not be a technical person to judge the skills of a developer. In order to test the developer’s technical know-how, we are presenting a list of must-know skills for a developer. Later in this article, we will delve upon some general skills.
Must-know skills for a developer
• He/she must know how to create a plug-in.
• Must know how to activate and deactivate the plug-in.
• Should know how to create custom tables. Many a times, clients want to incorporate advanced functionalities like shopping carts, booking systems etc., other than existing tables. In such cases, Wordpress coder must know how to do it.
• Must know how to add scripts and styles using wp_enqueue_scripts and wp_enqueue_styles functions.
• Must have knowledge about creating short codes for providing dynamic edge to custom pages.
• It is very vital to know how to filter the content of page or post.
• Must be able to work with Ajax.
• Knowledge about apache. Must know how to fix the permalinks through .htaccess file.
• Expertise over MySQL will help you to avoid misuse of wp queries function.
• Must know HTML - semantic tags, HTML5; Javascript - jQuery UI, TinyMCE, jQuery Form etc.
• A good wordpress developer must know how to write SQL queries.
• Must know how to add option boxes like a check box, radio button, drop down.
• Ensure that W3C theme is unique and hand coded.
Some common things to keep in mind while hiring a Wordpress developer
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