4. Use Cases
• Guest Columnists
• Article Types (magazine sites)
• Asides / Link Stories
• Registered Commenters
5. Carrington Principles
• Convention over code
• Developer-friendly abstraction levels
• Structure for rules hierarchy
• Multiple templates instead of conditionals
6. WordPress Stack
1. Request comes in
2. .htaccess rules applied
3. No file match = hand off to WordPress
4. Load code (including plugins and theme)
5. Prep data (plugins applied)
6. Hand off to theme