turning wordpress into a full-blown cms
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Turning WordPress into a full-blown CMS. -Alex Young. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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?