How to content manage everything

How to content manage everything
Making the mostof WordPress.

Where does the time go?
Static content sucks
It takes time to maintain
You’ve got better things to do

There’s a feature for that
My aim is to give you an idea of what is possible with WordPress.
Menus
Post types
Widgets
Post formats

Mmmmenus
Lists of links really are everywhere on websites.
Ever hand-coded one?
Yeah, me too...

Mmmmenus
Never hand code a menu again
Don’t worry about changing URLs
CSS Hooks a-plenty me hearties
Theme locations for different menus
Menu widget

How-to-menu

How-to-menu
Adding links
Check the boxes...
Click “Add to menu”.

How-to-menu

Theme locations
“Primary Navigation” is the
theme locationand “My menu” is a menu selected from the dropdown.
The code:
functions.php:
register_nav_menu( 'primary', 'My Menu' );
header.php
wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) );
Further reading:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu

Extending menus
Custom Nav Walker Class
Show the description field
Show featured images from posts/pages
Access other page/post custom fields

Post types, or rather, content types
Posts and pages are both post types
As are attachments
WordPress is built on its own API
The same API is available to theme & plugin developers

What problem do they solve?
Things that are neither posts nor pages
Forums – bbPressplugin
Properties
Events
Static blocks
Landing pages
Other applications

Register the hell out of that post type
add_action('init', 'codex_custom_init');
function codex_custom_init() {
register_post_type('book', array(
'labels' => $labels,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'rewrite' => true,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'has_archive' => true,
'supports' => array('title','editor','thumbnail')
) );
}

You can always cheat
Themergency custom post type generator
http://themergency.com/generators/wordpress-custom-post-types/

The post type admin

Modifying the edit screen
Use the metabox API to add/remove or reorder metaboxes.
Example:
Blobs plugin
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box

Metaboxes
add_meta_box( $id, $title, $callback, $post_type, $context, $priority,
$callback_args );
$callback is a the name of a function that displays the content eg. Form fields
$context determines where the box appears eg. ‘side’ or ‘normal’
$priority allows you to control the order boxes appear in eg. ‘high’ or ‘low’

Metaboxes
Provide user friendly alternatives to custom fields
Server side validation for custom fields eg. sanitize_title_with_dashes( $_POST[‘my_field’] );
Use the ‘save_post’ action
update_post_meta($post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value);
Accessing post meta
get_post_meta($post_id, $key, $single);
get_post_custom();

More cheating
Lots of tutorials out there
http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/user-friendly-custom-fields-meta-boxes-wordpress
Or if you’re not into coding
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-fields/

Example:
Flickr Gallery

Example:
Landing Pages

Its got a widget
Typically in a sidebar
Can be anywhere in a theme – “Widget areas”
Many plugins provide widgets
Rapid prototyping of information architecture

A widget it has got
Widget areas on interconnectit.com make up the home page and footer section
Page widget (+ jQuery)
Text Widget
Posts widgets
Authors widget
Archive widget
Further reading:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API

Making sidebars
register_sidebar( $args );
Can be done programmatically
Widget area per category, per page etc...
Could even use a custom menu walker to show widgets in a menu – mega menus!
Further Reading:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

Post formats
Differentiate content within a post type
Think tumblr without the threat of tumbeasts
Portable between themes
Custom layouts for posts

Post formats
Supported formats: Aside, Gallery, Link, Image, Quote, Status, Video, Audio, Chat
add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array( 'aside', 'gallery' ) );
Per post type:
add_post_type_support( $post_type, 'post-formats' );
In the loop:
has_post_format( $format );

There can be only one

Twentyten themegallery post format

Tumblr style themes
Auld
Wumblr
Shelf

In summary
Menus take the pain out of site navigation
Post types make WP suitable for many applications
Widgets make it easy to refine information architecture
Post formats are frickin cool

And it’s goodnight from him
Thanks for listening
Robert O’Rourke
http://sanchothefat.com
@sanchothefat

How to content manage everything

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