Meet WordPress

Meet WordPress
Seminar on Wordpress, Joomla & Drupal
May 27, 2010, Jerusalem
By: Miriam Schwab

Table of Contents
Elegance
Development Structure
Theme File Types
Template Tags
The Loop
Plugins
Strengths & Weaknesses
Community
Resources
Getting Started

Elegance
WordPress

”
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system…
- http://wordpress.org/about/

WordPress Roots
WordPress has its roots in a platform called b2/cafelog. In 2003, Matt Mullenweg put out a call to other developers to help develop a fork of this software, and Mike Little answered and together they started developing WordPress.

Code is Poetry
This image appears in the bottom right-hand corner of every page on WordPress.org. It exemplifies the attention to elegance both in the code and in the user interface.

Elegant Requirements
PHP 4.3+, MySQL 4.1.2+
Famous 5 minute installation

Some Features
Portable core
User management
User profiles
Internationalization and Localization
Feeds galore
Pretty permalinks
Pingbacks/trackbacks
Robust comments
Pwdproteced pages/posts
Schedule posts
Multipage posts
Categories
Tags
Save drafts
Preview
Widgets
Search

Development Structure
WordPress

Theme file types

Custom Theme Files
category.php
category-red.php
category-6.php
author.php
author-john.php (3.0)
404.php
tag.php
tag-blue.php
tag-6.php taxonomy.php
date.php
attachment.php
functions.php

What Page?

http://codex.wordpress.org/File:Template_Hierarchy.png

Template Tags
Template tags are snippets of code that represent complete actions that take place on the site. For example, placing the_title in the loop on your template page will present the title of the post or Page in that place.
Template tags make dynamic functionality efficient and easy.

Template Tags

Example: the_tags

The Loop
“The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code placed in the Loop will be repeated on each post.” (The Loop – Codex)

The Loop
if (have_posts()) :
while (have_posts()) :
the_post();
the_content();
endwhile;
endif;

The Loop
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?phpendwhile; ?>
<?phpendif; ?>

(from Motion 1.0.6)
<div class="posttop">
<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="<?phpthe_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?phpthe_title_attribute(); ?>"><?phpthe_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="postmetatop">
div class="categs">Filed Under: <?phpthe_category( ', ' ); ?> by <?phpthe_author() ?> — <?phpcomments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment' ), __( '1 Comment' ), __( '% Comments' ) ) ?>
</div>
<div class="date"><span><?phpthe_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="postcontent">
<?phpthe_excerpt( 'View full article »' ); ?>
</div>
<div class="postmetabottom">
<div class="tags"><?phpthe_tags( 'Tags: ', ', ', '' ); ?></div>
<div class="readmore"><span><a href="<?phpthe_permalink(); ?>">Read more</a></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?phpendwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<div class="post">
<div class="posttop">
<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="#">Oops!</a></h2>
</div>
<div class="postcontent">
<p>What you are looking for doesn't seem to be on this page...</p>
</div>
</div>
<?phpendif; ?>

Plugin Directory

”
WordPress is infinitely extensible. One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for the huge community to expand what WordPress can do, limited only by their imagination.
- http://wordpress.org/extend/

Plugin Management

Types of Content

WordPress the CMS
Now
Won Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards
Static front page
Pages vs. Posts
Controllable navigation
Built-in blog
3.0
Custom post types
Advanced navigation system
Multi-sites in one WP installation

Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
Ease of use
Community
Flexibility
RSS feeds galore
Open Source
Blog hero
SEO
Social media integration
Weaknesses
Security
Speed

Good for/not so good for
Good for
Corporate sites
Blogs
News/information sites
Not so good for
E-commerce
Multi-language
Community sites with registered users
User level-based management of specific types of content

Examples (our work)
WordPress

Kayema
Custom design
All content areas are controllable by the owner
News area
Blog area

Tene Capital
Custom design
Controllable flash header with changing images
Ajax sliding portfolio section featuring the companies that Tene supports with complete control from the admin
News and archive section based on WordPress' blogging platform
Customized Team section with a unique profile photo gallery for each team member
Customized login area for limited partners to see user-specific announcements for their company

Outside Counsel
Custom design
Customized attorney photo gallery with an easy to manage user interface
Unique, professional, and clean design with lots of white space
Homepage slider that features each attorney, their thumbnail image, their credentials, and a link to the attorney's bio on the site.
Customized sidebar widget promotes OCS's publications, news, and video.
Customized attorney profile pages with a unique layout to display their photo, contact details, linked in profile, and experience.

A Sweet Life
Custom design
Programmed to have multiple “blogs” according to author
Dynamic contributors page
Ad management
Ask an Expert lets users submit questions which are directed to experts to answer

NatanSharansky (not available online)
Custom design
Site to aggregate history, audio, video, files, and books by and about NatanSharansky

JobKatif
Site helps evacuees from Gush Katif find jobs or market their business
Custom programmed job directory allows employers to post jobs. Only approved users can see all the job info.
Employers get email after certain amount of time asking them to click a link if they’d like the job to stay on the site
Jobs searchable by location, industry, free text
Approved users can submit their business to the business directory
Business directory searchable by industry

Community
WordPress

Community Resources
Support forums
CodePoet
Forums
Codex
WP-Pro
WP-Hackers
WP Tavern
WordPress Group on LinkedIn
Mailing Lists
Free Themes Directory

WPGarage.com – tips, tricks and hacks for WordPress

Getting Started
New To WordPress - Where to Start
First Steps with WordPress
WordPress Lessons
Theme Development Checklist
Blog design and layout

Thanks!
illuminea
http://illuminea.com ▪ http://wpgarage.com@miriamschwab ▪ http://facebook.com/miriamschwab

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