There are many ways to customize your WordPress site, some wrong and some right. In this presentation we explore the wrong ways and the right ways to make you a better WordPress developer.

1. CustomizeYour
Themethe RightWay
@DustinHartzler

2. AboutMe- From Dayton, Ohio.
- WordPress podcaster
- WooCommerce Ninja at
Automattic

3. Your
Website
Engineer.com

4. Today's Outline- Types of Customizations
- The Wrong Ways
- The Right Ways

5. Types ofCustomizations
Small visual
changes

6. Types ofCustomizationsSmall visual changes

7. Types ofCustomizations
Rearrange content
on page

8. Types ofCustomizationsRearrange content on page

9. Types ofCustomizations
Change output of
plugin

10. Types ofCustomizationsChange output of plugin

11. Wrong Way#1Editing theme or
plugin files

12. WrongWay#2Adding code to
functions.php

13. Rightway#1Changing Visuals

14. Rightway#2Minimal Code

15. RightWay#3Custom Plugin

16. RightWay#4Child Theme

17. Live
Demo