Composer Yourself: An Introduction to using Composer with WordPress with Eric Poe

Eric Poe, WordCamp KC 2019

Saturday, June 29th, 3pm – Capitol Federal Conference Center (RC 101)

Composer is a tool that has been instrumental in driving a renewed enthusiasm in PHP development over the past decade. Through the use of Composer, library development, framework development, and application development have improved within the PHP ecosystem. Now that WordPress requires a minimum of PHP 5.6 to run, we can take advantage of using Composer in WordPress applications! We’ll talk about some very useful Composer commands for building, updating, and maintaining the health of your Composer-based PHP application and we’ll look at using Composer for building a WordPress application.

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Eric Poe

Eric Poe is a lifelong learner, half-knit/half-wit. He is a co-organizer of the KC PHP User Group and serves as the Curriculum Director for CoderDojoKC, which teaches kids how to program. Eric enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and watching kung-fu movies.

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