turning wordpress into a full-blown cms -alex young
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Turning WordPress into a full-blown CMS-ALEX YOUNG
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About me
Work at Punchline Advertising
Currently studying at UVU
3 years web development experience
1.5 years of WordPress experience
1.5 years of Husband experience
Favorite band is Queen
4 years of World of Warcraft experience
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A brief history of WordPress(ONLY THE STUFF THAT MATTERS TO THIS PRESENTATION)
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2003 – WordPress was released
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2004 – v1.2 was released (plugins)
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What are plugins?
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2005 – v1.5 was released (pages)
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Page and Page Templates
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2010 – v3.0/3.1 were released (CPTs and Post Formats)
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Making WordPress even more CMS(ier)er
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For the newbies…
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Plugins
Plugins can either be your best friend, or that one friend who is kind of annoying.
Can really make your site beautiful, useful, and functional.
Also can make your site clunky, slow, and fugly.
Gives you a lot more bang for your buck
Saves you a lot of time
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Some great plugins for newbies
1. Jetpack - http://jetpack.me/
2. Ultimate TinyMCE - http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/Sadly, stopped working in 3.9. - http://wpeditpro.com/
3. Column Shortcodes - http://wordpress.org/plugins/column-shortcodes/
4. Contact Form 7 - http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
5. WooCommerce - http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
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For the Developers
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Some great plugins for developers
Pods.io - http://pods.io/docs/learn/what-is-pods/
Extend current WordPress post types (Posts, Pages, etc.)
Create your own post types
Create your own custom meta fields
Create ADVANCED content types(can still use get post meta)
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Another plugin
JSON API - http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/
Great for making web services and apps
Works where Jetpacks’s API didn’t
Allows you to add your own controllers, methods etc without modifying plugin source code
Extends the CMS ability of WordPress into the world of single page html5/js apps
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One last plugin for both newbies and developers
Backup Buddy - http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/
Database or full-site backups
Offsite storage
Scheduled backups
Super easy site migration
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So why WordPress?
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Just a few reasons why I choose it
There are very few annoyances with WordPress
WordPress is constantly under active development
The WordPress community is excellent
WordPress is safe
WordPress is extremely forgiving and easy to use. A single person can run large sites
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Questions?