My slides of my presentation at WordCamp NYC. Unfortunately it was quite conceptual and wasn't able to show the cool stuff. This will happen in the next couple of months.
2. Marko Heijnen
• WordPress and mobile
"developer"
• Working with WordPress for six
years
• WordPress contributor of 3.0,
3.3 and 3.4
• Founder of WP Rockstars
4. What is a network
• It's like WordPress.com
• One WordPress installation with
multiple sites
• Control all sites from the
network admin
• Easy to update itself, themes
and plugins
5. Will default
plugins work?
• First answer will be yes
• It still works like you expected
• But plugins are often not build
for network
• The whole control will always be
on site level
• So the long answer would be no
in some cases
• In my case custom plugins
make sense
6. What is my talk about?
Building cool sites for artists
7. One of the problems
• Artist don't have the money for
a cool site
• Their current site isn't that fancy
• They want to be in full control
over their data
• They just want more
possibilities
• They are on MySpace
8. The solution
• Create a network installation
like WordPress.com
• Build default themes for them
they can use
• Build all the expected
functionality that a artist need
• And share this with all the
artists
• Little bit like MySpace 3.0
9. Our goals
• An easy to use tool to create
awesome sites
• It's targeted for artists who
want to share their experience
with their fans
• Change their content in an easy
way
• That the artists are more in
touch with their fans
10. Artist goals
• Be more in touch with their fans
• More fans to their concerts
• Sell more songs through offline
and online
• The ability to change their site
without any help
12. Cleaning up
• It's important to remove
features that aren't needed
• We removed a lot of menu
items to make the admin area
clean
• We removed almost all the meta
boxes on the dashboard
• Also removed a lot of default
widgets
16. Their music
• Several options to able for artist
to share their music
• In begin YouTube orientated
• They can manage this from out
WordPress
• Later on linking it with Spotify
and iTunes
17. Tour schedule
• Artist can create a new tour
schedule
• Add dates/places to it
• It doesn't have to be a tour, a
single performance is also
possible
18. Social
• Their will be a Twitter and
Facebook connection
• Ability to send Links when the
artist published a post
• See some basic statistics in
how they use the social media
• Show the tweets/messages on
their site
19. Slideshow
• Show new happenings in a cool
way
• Ability to have multiple
slideshows
• Can be in content, widget or
default position
• Manipulate a certain image to
be grayscale
20. In-site support
• Giving great support is very
important
• Working with desk.com to make
it happen
• They can create and respond to
tickets
• See in the toolbar if they got
new feedback
• When they do use mail they will
also see the feedback there
22. The main site
• The goal is to make users
explorer the content we have
• Browse to all the artist in
several ways
• Not just boring lists but
meaningful content
23. The main site
• Show their tour schedule in one
big overview
• Show some highlighted stories
that the artists wrote
• Of course also an explanation
about what it is
24. Ow yeah, two more last things
We do live in 2012 you know
25. The mobile app
• There will be an app for iPhone
and Android
• Artist will be able to be faster in
touch with their fans
• Share music and be able to give
them a discount
• Also a plan to have an overhaul
app with basic information of
the artists
26. E-commerce
functionality
• This will be one of the coolest
features
• No more the need of a separate
platform
• They will be in full control over
their products
• Still be able to process them to
another company if needed
27. Coolest thing is that this will be a new plugin
and we call it SalesPress
28. What about other e-
commerce platforms
• First of all, we think we can
build something really awesome
• Trying to build something for
the community without wanting
to make a profit
• And we do think no other plugin
will fit ArtistPress the way we
want