WordPress DK at DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2009

DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2009 by Lisa Risager, Morten Høybye Frederiksen, Jesper Laugesen&René Clausen Nielsen CreativeCommonsAttribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Denmark

Agenda 1. About WordPress 2. WordPress Stats 3. Why so popular? 4. Developing WordPress 5. More than a blog 6. WordPress Cases 7. Questions 2

1. About WordPress A little history • Started in 2003 • Successor of b2/cafelog • Focus on web standards • WordPress 1.0 was out in January, 2004 • Themes introduced in 2005 • WordPress.com (hosted blogs) in 2005 • First WordCamp in 2006 3

1. About WordPress Where to find stuff • Self-install: wordpress.org • Hosted: wordpress.com • Danish community: wordpress.dk • Documentation: codex.wordpress.org • Support: wordpress.org/support/ • Development: trac.wordpress.org 4

1. About WordPress Requirements • PHP version 4.3 orgreater • MySQL version 4.0 orgreater • 5 minutes • Yes, 5 minutes! 5

2. WordPress Stats Download history • 2005: 900,000 downloads • 2006: 1,545,703 downloads • 2007: 3,816,965 downloads 6

2. WordPress Stats WordPress 2.7 has been downloaded 5,518,284 times (And it was only released on December 10, 2008) As of May 24, 2009 7

2. WordPress Stats On WordPress.org you’ll find • 4,245 plugins, 22,152,788 downloads, all GPL. • 791 themes, 4,938,397 downloads, all Open Source. • 2,617 ideas, 56,802 votes, and counting. As of May 24, 2009 8

3. Why so Popular? • Ease of use for developers • Ease of use for webmasters • Ease of use for web editors • Ease of use for end users 9

3. Why so Popular? • Vocabulary: Dashboard, blog, post, page, comments, s ettings, appearance, plugins, widgets, med ia, users • …and so on • It is NOT primarily a framework, but an out-of-the-boxbloggingtool! 10

3. Why so Popular? • Made for writers – just add words! • Lets you focus on content, not technology • Taxonomy on the go • Easy editing 11

3. Why so Popular? • Made by designers • Preview • Web standards • Focus on usability and user-testing 12

3. Why so Popular? Basically: • It’s sooooo, like, pretty. You know, like, beautiful! 13

3. Why so Popular? Dead simple (and blisteringly quick) setup – as presented in the unfortunately rather poor video at http://wordpress.23video.com/video/466604/screencast-for-drupalcamp: 00:00-01:10 Installation 01:10-01:52 Password change 01:52-03:52 Theme change 03:52-06:27 Settings changes 06:27-07:51 Editing a post (editing title, content, category, tags and a custom field) 07:51-08:32 Editing post permalink 08:32-09:07 Editing a comment 09:07-09:20 Collapsing admin menu 09:20-10:26 Installing and configuring OpenID support 10:26-11:11 Finding interesting plugins 11:11-12:25 Installing and configuring All in One SEO Pack 12:25-14:11 Installing and configuring Google XML Sitemaps 14:11-15:16 Configuring special theme options 15:16-16:00 Installing Lightbox 2 16:00-18:28 Writing a new post with an image and resizing text field 18:28-19:03 Changing shown author name 19:03-22:06 Arranging widgets 22:06-23:35 Rearranging and tweaking the dashboard 14

3. Why so Popular? • Next level: make your own template • Make your own plugin • Use Custom Fields • Integrate with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, iPhone& other stuff 15

4. Developing WordPress Easy Plugin Use & Development plugin.php Simple, but comprehensive, APIs: • Template tags: the_title(), the_permalink(), get_the_time(), the_time (), get_bookmarks(), ... • Actions: atom_head, wp_head, loop_start, ... • Filters: comment_url, the_title, the_title_rss... • Functionoverride: wp_mail(), get_userdata(), … • Helperfunctions: is_404(), is_search(), ... 16

4. Developing WordPress Themes& The Loop index.php <?phpget_header(); ?> <?phpif ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>  <?phpendwhile; else: ?> <p><?php_e('Sorry, no posts matchedyourcriteria.'); ?></p> <?phpendif; ?> <?phpget_footer(); ?> 17

4. Developing WordPress Theme development style.css + index.php • Functionaltemplates: functions.php, 404.php, archive.php, page.ph p, single.php, ... • Multiple loops: rewind_posts(), query_posts('category_name =wp'), newWP_Query('tag=drupal&order=AS C') • Configuration: add_theme_page() • Parent-childthemes: TEMPLATE: sandbox 18

5. More than a blog Go all the way! • Podcasting • VideoPress • bbPress • WordPress MU • BuddyPress 19

5. More than a blog

6. WordPress Cases 22

6. WordPress Cases Se more cases at WordPress Showcase 30

7. Questions? 31

WordPress DK at DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2009

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