Using WordPress As a Platform

WordPress as a Platform
Bangalore PHP Meetup – 30-Jan-2010
SudarMuthu
Research Engineer, Yahoo Labs
http://sudarmuthu.com
Twitter: @sudarmuthu

Types of Application
Two Types
As a WordPress theme or a Plugin
As a Standalone Application (BackPress)

As a Theme or Plugin
Extends WordPress (needs it to run)
Doesn’t involve modifying the core (mostly)
Uses the Plugin API
Not necessarily a CMS application

As a Theme or a Plugin – Some Examples
Invoice Application – WP Invoice (http://twincitiestech.com/services/wp-invoice/)
Contact Management – RoloPress (http://rolopress.com)
Job board – RecruitPress(http://recruitpress.com/)
Social Networking site – BuddyPress(http://buddypress.org)

Standalone Application - BackPress
Official Definition at http://backpress.org
BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It grew out of the immensely popular WordPress project, and is also the core of the bbPress and GlotPress sister-projects.

BackPress - Features
User role management
Complete Plugin API
XML-RPC Server and Client
Object Caching
Database Abstraction
Pseudo-cron functionality
Full HTTP library
KSES: Full security filtering for HTML content

It is advantageous when…
You are comfortable in WordPress
The server configuration is not known
Need to provide backward compatibility to PHP 4
Application is not overly complex
Quick Prototype
You can consider code as documentation ;-)

It is not so advantageous when
You are pretty new to WordPress
The application is pretty complex
Your application is going to be only on PHP 5+
Need to support multiple database types
Need to run lot of background processes.

Thank you
SudarMuthu
Research Engineer, Yahoo Labs
http://sudarmuthu.com
Twitter: @sudarmuthu

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