How to Troubleshoot Apps for the Modern Connected Worker
Integrity St. Louis WordCamp 2012
1. Evolution of WordPress
It’s Nice to Meet You
Ed Morrissey
Partner & Chief Creative Officer
6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 444
Saint Louis, MO 63130
ed@integritystl.com
www.integritystl.com
Interactive. Digital. Awesome.
2. Welcome
• It starts when it starts
• The people who come are the best who
could have come
• It’s over when it’s over
• The Law of Two Feet
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3. Background
• The ‘Elder’
• Still going strong
• Advocate for open source
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4. This Past Year…
WordPress Sites in the World
as of 8/2/2011 and 9/18/2012 - http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
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5. The CMS Market (top Million)
Other
(100+)
54.6%
7.0%
8.9%
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/a
ll
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6. How it All Started…
• Matt blogged about b2 and Mike left a
comment…
http://ma.tt/2003/01/the-blogging-software-dilemma/#comment-445
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7. Why Start WordPress
• Forward compatibility
• Software wasn’t being improved
• Didn’t agree with licensing
• Wanted code to be free to the world
• Flexibility of Moveable Type
• Parsing of TextPattern
• Hackability of b2
• Ease of Blogger
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8. GPLv2 License
• Gives the unlimited rights to
copy/distribute source code
• AND prevents you from taking those
rights away
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9. What it is…
A classy news/weblog tool
(aka logware)
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10. What is it?
• Blogging
• CMS
• Application
• PaaS
Limited by your imagination
And tech chops
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35. Summary
• Feature rich
• Extendable via plugins or theme
• Constantly improved
• Know it’s limitations (e-commerce)
• Too many plugins (there’s a plugin for that)
• Lots of upgrades
Limited by your imagination
And tech chops
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36. Carpe Diem
Randy Hicks Eric Johnson
Metacake/Nashville Automattic
‘Hooks & Filters’ ‘Mobile’
Ryan Markel Reshma Chattaram
Automattic Chamberlin
‘Getting Started’ B&C Designers
‘Design’
Joshua Ray
Integrity
‘Custom Admin’
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37. My Challenge to You
MAKE TODAY
RIDICULOUSLY
AWESOME
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38. Thanks to Our Sponsors
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39. Thank You
It Was Nice to Meet You
Ed Morrissey
Partner & Chief Creative Officer
6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 444
Saint Louis, MO 63130
ed@integritystl.com
www.integritystl.com
Interactive. Digital. Awesome.
Editor's Notes
WordPress powers: half the top 100 blogs 14.7% of the top 1 million websites 22% of every new domain in the US 26.09.12
First download 2003 The successor of b2/cafelog Founder: Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little Publishing platform Elegant, user-focused, well-architected Built on PHP and MySQL Open Source project Largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world WordPress is Free and open source software, built by a distributed community of mostly volunteer developers from around the world. WordPress comes with some awesome, worldview-changing rights courtesy of its license, the GPL. Derivatives of WordPress code inherit the GPL license 26.09.12
