Using WordPress as a Web Framework (ceci n'est pas un blogue) Sylvain Carle of Praized Media WordCamp Montréal 2009

whois afroginthevalley? Montréal Internet Geek, gone west, came back Been blogging for almost 10 years Been doing internet startups for 15 years Involved in the local community BarCamp, WebCamp, *Camp On the board of (current/ past ) Alliance Numérique, Ile-Sans-Fil FACIL, Linux-Québec, CAUCE and a few others Human Hub

Montréal Internet Geek, gone west, came back

Been blogging for almost 10 years

Been doing internet startups for 15 years

Involved in the local community

BarCamp, WebCamp, *Camp

On the board of (current/ past )

Alliance Numérique, Ile-Sans-Fil

FACIL, Linux-Québec, CAUCE and a few others

Human Hub

traceroute praizedmedia.com Company kickstarted during a Yulbiz event in 2006 Three blogger co-founders (2 natives, one natural born) Got 1Mil+ funding from Garage Technology Canada (now CSL) Based in Montreal with plans for World Domination ;-)

Company kickstarted during a Yulbiz event in 2006

Three blogger co-founders (2 natives, one natural born)

Got 1Mil+ funding from Garage Technology Canada (now CSL)

Based in Montreal with plans for World Domination ;-)

locate business model Local Search industry is several Billions per year Propose a model based on users, not merchants Enterprisey Technology Stack Opportunity for Social Software for Local Search

Local Search industry is several Billions per year

Propose a model based on users, not merchants

Enterprisey Technology Stack

Opportunity for Social Software for Local Search

grep platform Develop a platform for distributed local search Been thinking about platform for a long time Figured out that successful platforms are built on top of successful platforms Figured out that WordPress was an incredibly successful platform and would continue to grow tremendously

Develop a platform for distributed local search

Been thinking about platform for a long time

Figured out that successful platforms are built on top of successful platforms

Figured out that WordPress was an incredibly successful platform and would continue to grow tremendously

more stack Anti Not Invented Here Syndrome (re-use is king) Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) for servers Hosted at Amazon EC2 + Liquid Web Ruby On Rails for platform / API MySQL + Sphinx for search WordPress and PHP for distributed views jQuery + CSS framework TRAC for subversion + tickets + wiki

Anti Not Invented Here Syndrome (re-use is king)

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) for servers

Hosted at Amazon EC2 + Liquid Web

Ruby On Rails for platform / API

MySQL + Sphinx for search

WordPress and PHP for distributed views

jQuery + CSS framework

TRAC for subversion + tickets + wiki

talk wordpress Two plugins, Community and Place Picker Open Source core libs wrapped for WP Works with WP, WP-MU, BuddyPress (and soon BBPress) Free hosting for local blogs with WP on praized.net blogs.praized.com (praized planet) is where most of our PR/Marketing efforts

Two plugins, Community and Place Picker

Open Source core libs wrapped for WP

Works with WP, WP-MU, BuddyPress (and soon BBPress)

Free hosting for local blogs with WP on praized.net

blogs.praized.com (praized planet) is where most of our PR/Marketing efforts

ifconfig plugins (praized) Decided to develop for blog platforms (as Blogs or CMS) Found local talent on WP-Hackers Mailing List (Hi Steph!) Did initial release for MT and WP but WP has 95% usage on our network

Decided to develop for blog platforms (as Blogs or CMS)

Found local talent on WP-Hackers Mailing List (Hi Steph!)

Did initial release for MT and WP but WP has 95% usage on our network

ifconfig plugins (you) Use WordPress for views (themes) and extra feature needed thru other plugins Existing knowledge from sysadmins to designers Using the WordPress native models (users, posts, comments) Both these are now much easier with the new WP API for pretty much anything Backpress is the project to look for even more Future is probably “packaging” plugins+themes for specific applications on top of WordPress

Use WordPress for views (themes) and extra feature needed thru other plugins

Existing knowledge from sysadmins to designers

Using the WordPress native models (users, posts, comments)

Both these are now much easier with the new WP API for pretty much anything

Backpress is the project to look for even more

Future is probably “packaging” plugins+themes for specific applications on top of WordPress

uptime api.praized.com API supports XML and JSON PHP classes to wrap all call in WP OAuth and Microformats 50 Mil+ call last month to api.praized.com Open Source Licenses for most software Working on Opening licenses for GeoData and places

API supports XML and JSON

PHP classes to wrap all call in WP

OAuth and Microformats

50 Mil+ call last month to api.praized.com

Open Source Licenses for most software

Working on Opening licenses for GeoData and places

apt-get install developers Building a developer community is a process of love, patience and passion Work with existing developers for similar platforms, our scope is “Open Web” Firefox and Laconi.ca integration under development Blogs, mobile apps, web apps, libs in + languages International, all our software is i18n, all our target platform are, wordpress is by far the most succesful We end up having wordpress installations that are not blogs at all, check out http://answers.yellowpages.ca for an example

Building a developer community is a process of love, patience and passion

Work with existing developers for similar platforms, our scope is “Open Web”

Firefox and Laconi.ca integration under development

Blogs, mobile apps, web apps, libs in + languages

International, all our software is i18n, all our target platform are, wordpress is by far the most succesful

We end up having wordpress installations that are not blogs at all, check out http://answers.yellowpages.ca for an example

ping me http://afrog.in/ + http://afroginthevalley.com/ http://blogs.praized.com/dev http://api-tribe.com/ Sandbox for developers @afrognthevalley @sylvaincarle on twitter @afroginthevalley on identi.ca http://code.google.com/p/praized/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/praized-community/ www.praized.com