The Craft of Answering WordPress Questions

Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko, WordCamp Europe 2014

The Craft of Answering
WordPress Questions

WordPress questions

Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko

In the past

Map

not for sale

Bridge

Taught me research & programming

  1. Ultima Online
  2. Answering questions

Formal education never clicked.

Answering illuminates topic

scale

Reputation graph

Things important for scale

Or your sanity won’t last.

Question comprehension

  1. I did…
  2. I expected…
  3. I got…

kinds of answers

Nudge

Code

Answer

Legend

Andrew Nacin

“it’s really good”

streamline

Boilerplate

Sometimes I start to type “what the f∗∗∗?” and it comes out “could you please elaborate?”.

Hotkeys

It it worth the time?

md-link.js

javascript:(function () {
	var selection = window.getSelection().toString();
	var anchor = selection ? selection : document.title;
	void(prompt('', '['+anchor+']('+location.href+')'));
})();
gist.github.com/5700850

but
environment

People

Step away when not your

Supply of questions

understanding

Thank you for listening! Questions? ;)

Rarst.net/slides/answering

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