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Turning WordPress into a full-blown CMS

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.

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Turning WordPress into a full-blown CMS

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  1. Turning WordPress into a full-blown CMS -Alex Young

  2. 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

  3. A brief history of WordPress (only the stuff that matters to this presentation)

  4. 2003 – WordPress was released

  5. 2004 – v1.2 was released (plugins)

  6. What are plugins?

  7. 2005 – v1.5 was released (pages)

  8. Page and Page Templates

  9. 2010 – v3.0/3.1 were released (CPTs and Post Formats)

  10. Making WordPress even more CMS(ier)er

  11. For the newbies…

  12. 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

  13. 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/

  14. For the Developers

  15. 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)

  16. 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/jsapps

  17. 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

  18. So why WordPress?

  19. 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

  20. Questions?

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