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- 1. Meet The Family An introduction to some other WordPress projects you may not know about
- 2. Who is this guy? • Beau Lebens • Automattician • beau@dentedreality.com.au • http://dentedreality.com.au/
- 3. Meet the Family • WordPress • WordPress MU • bbPress • BuddyPress • BackPress
- 4. WordPress • State-of-the-art Publishing Platform • Blog? CMS! • Used by millions of users • Easy to install and use • Infinitely customizable through plugins & themes • GPL licensed
- 5. WordPress MU • Multi-blog version of WordPress • Host many blogs with shared user accounts • Site Admins control everything • GPL licensed
- 6. WPMU != WordPress • Uses more server resources • More complex to install & manage • Blog Admins CANNOT install their own Themes or Plugins • Not all plugins will work! • Scales massively
- 8. Get WordPress MU • http://mu.wordpress.org/ • http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ • http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ • http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk • http://ocaoimh.ie/ • http://codex.wordpress.org/ Installing_Multiple_Blogs
- 9. bbPress • Powerful, lightweight forum system • Optionally integrates with WordPress user system • Shares a lot of code & concepts with WP • GPL licensed Text
- 10. bbPress + WP = • Shared user tables (profiles, options) • Single Sign On (shared cookies) • Shared themes (with some tinkering) • Integrated one-to-many and many-to-many conversations (community) • Power to host a large community
- 12. Get bbPress • http://bbpress.org/ • http://bbpress.org/forums/ • http://trac.bbpress.org/ • http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/
- 13. BuddyPress • Social network in a box • WPMU + set of plugins + bbPress • Make your own Facebook, BYOTOS • Enable the features that work for you • GPL licensed Text
- 14. BuddyPress.org
- 15. Get BuddyPress • http://buddypress.org/ • http://buddypress.org/forums/ • http://trac.buddypress.org/ • http://buddypress.org/download/
- 16. BackPress • Shared code library between WP + bbPress • Provides common web app functionality • Designed to be portable -- Use it in your project! • Familiar for WordPress developers • GPL licensed
- 17. Get BackPress • http://backpress.automattic.com/ • http://svn.automattic.com/backpress/trunk
- 18. • Beau Lebens • beau@dentedreality.com.au • http://dentedreality.com.au/ • http://wordpress.org/ • http://codex.wordpress.org/
- 19. Q&A
Editor's Notes
- Started coding HTML in 96 Learned JS + CSS PHP/MySQL since 99/2000 -- 10 years WordPress around 4 years WPMU/bbPress 2 years
- Lets you publish a blog or website and manage it yourself Hosted (.com) or self-managed (.org) versions Incredibly flexible, once you think of it as a system that manages chunks of information + metadata
- Lets you publish a blog or website and manage it yourself Hosted (.com) or self-managed (.org) versions Incredibly flexible, once you think of it as a system that manages chunks of information + metadata
- Lets you publish a blog or website and manage it yourself Hosted (.com) or self-managed (.org) versions Incredibly flexible, once you think of it as a system that manages chunks of information + metadata
- Lets you publish a blog or website and manage it yourself Hosted (.com) or self-managed (.org) versions Incredibly flexible, once you think of it as a system that manages chunks of information + metadata
- Lets you publish a blog or website and manage it yourself Hosted (.com) or self-managed (.org) versions Incredibly flexible, once you think of it as a system that manages chunks of information + metadata
- Lets you publish a blog or website and manage it yourself Hosted (.com) or self-managed (.org) versions Incredibly flexible, once you think of it as a system that manages chunks of information + metadata
- Show of hands -- heard of/knows what is vs has used/worked with each one
- Show of hands -- heard of/knows what is vs has used/worked with each one
- Show of hands -- heard of/knows what is vs has used/worked with each one
- Show of hands -- heard of/knows what is vs has used/worked with each one
- Show of hands -- heard of/knows what is vs has used/worked with each one
- Show of hands -- heard of/knows what is vs has used/worked with each one
- Layer of additional functionality/control on top of WP Network of blogs, all hosted/controlled centrally Might not be what you want if you’re just hosting a couple WP installs (SVN, WP Hive, etc)
- Layer of additional functionality/control on top of WP Network of blogs, all hosted/controlled centrally Might not be what you want if you’re just hosting a couple WP installs (SVN, WP Hive, etc)
- Layer of additional functionality/control on top of WP Network of blogs, all hosted/controlled centrally Might not be what you want if you’re just hosting a couple WP installs (SVN, WP Hive, etc)
- Layer of additional functionality/control on top of WP Network of blogs, all hosted/controlled centrally Might not be what you want if you’re just hosting a couple WP installs (SVN, WP Hive, etc)
- +Memory esp Wildcard DNS, security concerns, managing upgrades, plugin selection mu-plugins: autoexec code, choose wisely Plugins break when they access DB incorrectly or don’t use WP_PLUGIN_DIR/URL etc WordPress.com = over 8 mill blogs, approaching 10 mill users, 1000 servers HyperDB gives sharding/Master-Slave support Shared table structure in DB to avoid monolithic tables
- +Memory esp Wildcard DNS, security concerns, managing upgrades, plugin selection mu-plugins: autoexec code, choose wisely Plugins break when they access DB incorrectly or don’t use WP_PLUGIN_DIR/URL etc WordPress.com = over 8 mill blogs, approaching 10 mill users, 1000 servers HyperDB gives sharding/Master-Slave support Shared table structure in DB to avoid monolithic tables
- +Memory esp Wildcard DNS, security concerns, managing upgrades, plugin selection mu-plugins: autoexec code, choose wisely Plugins break when they access DB incorrectly or don’t use WP_PLUGIN_DIR/URL etc WordPress.com = over 8 mill blogs, approaching 10 mill users, 1000 servers HyperDB gives sharding/Master-Slave support Shared table structure in DB to avoid monolithic tables
- +Memory esp Wildcard DNS, security concerns, managing upgrades, plugin selection mu-plugins: autoexec code, choose wisely Plugins break when they access DB incorrectly or don’t use WP_PLUGIN_DIR/URL etc WordPress.com = over 8 mill blogs, approaching 10 mill users, 1000 servers HyperDB gives sharding/Master-Slave support Shared table structure in DB to avoid monolithic tables
- +Memory esp Wildcard DNS, security concerns, managing upgrades, plugin selection mu-plugins: autoexec code, choose wisely Plugins break when they access DB incorrectly or don’t use WP_PLUGIN_DIR/URL etc WordPress.com = over 8 mill blogs, approaching 10 mill users, 1000 servers HyperDB gives sharding/Master-Slave support Shared table structure in DB to avoid monolithic tables
- Main website Trac -- report bugs, submit patches, help develop SVN -- get a copy, try it out Forums -- lots of great people and resources/examples/help Donncha -- lead developer’s website
- Fully independent and stand-alone system Shared plugin architecture, user concepts, table concepts Used for support forums, discussion boards, many-to-many conversations
- Fully independent and stand-alone system Shared plugin architecture, user concepts, table concepts Used for support forums, discussion boards, many-to-many conversations
- Fully independent and stand-alone system Shared plugin architecture, user concepts, table concepts Used for support forums, discussion boards, many-to-many conversations
- Fully independent and stand-alone system Shared plugin architecture, user concepts, table concepts Used for support forums, discussion boards, many-to-many conversations
- Load WP engine from the end of the bb-config file Symlink header.php + footer.php from WP theme dir, at the very least, load style.css from WP to get started Customize (add new) CSS to handle “body” content Example: WordPress.org support forums
- Load WP engine from the end of the bb-config file Symlink header.php + footer.php from WP theme dir, at the very least, load style.css from WP to get started Customize (add new) CSS to handle “body” content Example: WordPress.org support forums
- Load WP engine from the end of the bb-config file Symlink header.php + footer.php from WP theme dir, at the very least, load style.css from WP to get started Customize (add new) CSS to handle “body” content Example: WordPress.org support forums
- Load WP engine from the end of the bb-config file Symlink header.php + footer.php from WP theme dir, at the very least, load style.css from WP to get started Customize (add new) CSS to handle “body” content Example: WordPress.org support forums
- Main website Trac -- get involved SVN -- get a copy Forums -- lots of active people
- Users, Database, Mail, Crypto, HTTP, Scripts + CSS, Caching, Taxonomies, Options, String manipulation (HTML security/XSS, escaping, auto-linking, etc), XML-RPC, Internationalization/Localization through POMO
- Users, Database, Mail, Crypto, HTTP, Scripts + CSS, Caching, Taxonomies, Options, String manipulation (HTML security/XSS, escaping, auto-linking, etc), XML-RPC, Internationalization/Localization through POMO
- Users, Database, Mail, Crypto, HTTP, Scripts + CSS, Caching, Taxonomies, Options, String manipulation (HTML security/XSS, escaping, auto-linking, etc), XML-RPC, Internationalization/Localization through POMO
- Users, Database, Mail, Crypto, HTTP, Scripts + CSS, Caching, Taxonomies, Options, String manipulation (HTML security/XSS, escaping, auto-linking, etc), XML-RPC, Internationalization/Localization through POMO
- Default Trac install -- help make it more! SVN -- get a copy, load it as an external in your next project? A support-ticketing system called SupportPress, my own HTFS, perhaps some others?
- Andy Peatling is the lead developer Started building a site called ChickSpeak for a client, hired by Automattic, now works on BP full-time Extended Profiles, Private Messaging, Friends/Social Graph, Groups (+ blogs, bbPress), The Wire (Facebook Wall), Activity Streams (News Feed), Track other blogs, Forums (bbPress)
- Andy Peatling is the lead developer Started building a site called ChickSpeak for a client, hired by Automattic, now works on BP full-time Extended Profiles, Private Messaging, Friends/Social Graph, Groups (+ blogs, bbPress), The Wire (Facebook Wall), Activity Streams (News Feed), Track other blogs, Forums (bbPress)
- Andy Peatling is the lead developer Started building a site called ChickSpeak for a client, hired by Automattic, now works on BP full-time Extended Profiles, Private Messaging, Friends/Social Graph, Groups (+ blogs, bbPress), The Wire (Facebook Wall), Activity Streams (News Feed), Track other blogs, Forums (bbPress)
- Andy Peatling is the lead developer Started building a site called ChickSpeak for a client, hired by Automattic, now works on BP full-time Extended Profiles, Private Messaging, Friends/Social Graph, Groups (+ blogs, bbPress), The Wire (Facebook Wall), Activity Streams (News Feed), Track other blogs, Forums (bbPress)
- Thriving community of developers! Trac -- tickets, patches, code Forums -- discuss and shared Download -- ZIP or SVN, start hacking/exploring