Better Living Through Code Scanning

Summary: Getting a complex piece of code to work is hard enough. Making sure it’s secure and readable can be even harder. During this session, we’ll introduce a few simple plugin-based tools for automating the scanning of your code to insure that it meets WordPress standards for quality, security, and readability. After this session, you’ll have the basic toolset and knowledge you’ll need to scan your PHP and JavaScript code for security, identify the most common security and readability problems, and understand how to quickly and easily eliminate them.

Prerequisites: “attendees should be familiar with PHP and/or JavaScript in a WordPress context.”

Rating: A nice, wide black-diamond cruiser.