Should It Go Into a Theme or Into a Plugin?

In this presentation, we’ll be discussing scenarios and if they should go into the theme or into a plugin. Most people would say plugin. But most would be surprised why a plugin can be a bad idea.

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About Russell Aaron

I bought a guy a beer at a Vegas WordPress meetup in 2011 and never looked back. What followed was twenty years of working inside every corner of this industry. Support shops. Managed hosting. Enterprise clients. Hotel and casino digital teams. Plugin development. I've worked for the companies that were supposed to be serving you and I've worked for the people who hired them. That's not a resume flex. That's the education that built everything I do now. I'm the founder of WP Pro Support, born at the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup in 2012. I ran that meetup for over a decade. I co-organized WordCamp Las Vegas. I spent nearly nine years as co-host of WPWatercooler. I built and maintained over 500 client sites at WebDevStudios' Maintainn. I rebuilt the entire digital presence of a Las Vegas hotel and casino. My name is still in their active stylesheet today. I now build WordPress plugins and work one on one with site owners who have been burned. Bad developers. Fake support companies. Agencies that promised custom builds and installed a page builder. I know the game because I played it from both sides.