Wordpress as a CMS
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Presentation given at the Colorado Springs Open Source Meetup January 2009 meeting.
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- 1. WordPress as a CMS Michael J. Hammel http://www.graphics-muse.org [email_address]
- 2. Credits Shamefully stolen from Beyond a Blog By Jamie Oastler WordCamp Toronto 2008 Icons from Crystal Clear collection at Wikimedia Commons
- 4. The Power of the Platform
- 5. Anatomy of a theme
- 7. What can WordPress do?
- 8. Where do we go from here?
- 10. 1.3 million since Dec 2009 (2.7 release)
- 11. 1100 changes to repository
- 14. Hierarchical data structure (categories, pages, etc.)
- 15. User Roles
- 16. Content Approval / publishing workflow
- 18. Comment system
- 19. Canonical URLs
- 22. Community Driven
- 23. PHP backbone
- 24. MySQL backend
- 26. Plugins
- 27. Filters: database or display pipelines
- 28. Actions: event or code-location based
- 30. Power of the Platform “ WordPress was always designed as a simple CMS for people smart enough to not get mired in the things the CMSes usually get mired in.” Matt Mullenweg
- 32. “ Template files are the building blocks of your WordPress site. They fit together like the pieces of a puzzle to generate the web pages on your site. Some templates (the header and footer template files for example) are used on all the web pages, while others are used only under specific conditions.” - Stepping into Templates (Codex)
- 33. Themes Directory - /wp-content/themes
- 34. Anatomy of a theme Theme File Usage 404.php Invalid URL requests will be served this page archive.php Display template for posts without category styling category.php Display template for categories requests comments.php Included inside display templates to display comments and allow users to add new comments to a post / page. footer.php Put your analytics code here! functions.php A container for functions called in other themes files header.php <head> </head> and usually top-navigation index.php Primary and possibly only page Start simple, design iteratively http://wpcandy.com/articles/the-WordPress-starter-theme-project.html
- 35. Anatomy of a theme The volume and types of files in any theme will be based on the complexity / variety of designs and the skill of the author to implement those styles. Theme File Usage page.php Display template for pages (non-blog) searchform.php <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/searchform.php');?> sidebar.php Navigation or code included in other display templates. Can be managed through admin via widgets - http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/ single.php Display template for individual blog posts style.css Primary css stylesheet [Javascript] Sub-folder index.php Primary and possibly only page
- 37. More coding / less customization (maybe)
- 39. Less coding, more customization Starting Points http://www.wordpress.org http://www.wordcamptoronto.com http://vibr8bros.com/Wordpress-project http://weblogtoolscollection.com http://themestation.com Starting Points http://www.wordpress.com/extend/themes http://www.templatemonster.com http://woothemes.com http://www.wPremix.com http://www.revolutoinstheme.com http://www.themeforest.net
- 41. Read code / comments
- 42. Backups!!!
- 45. More control of process
- 53. WP-Print
- 54. WP Super Edit
- 56. Maintenance Mode
- 58. WP-Cache or WP Super Cache – high volume (Slashdot effect)
- 59. NextGen Gallery
- 61. Go beyond blogs
- 63. Multiple Users
- 70. GPS / Google Maps
- 71. Auctions / eCommerce: paypal, google checkouts
- 72. Mailing lists, Contact Managers, CRM
- 73. Role Management: http://agapetry.net/news/introducing-role-scoper/
- 77. flShow Manager
- 78. Post Thumb
- 79. Custom Fields + LightBox2
- 82. CaveMonkey50.com
- 83. Attach mp3 to post!
- 86. Qtranslate
- 90. Tech Republic
- 91. ZDNet News
- 93. Andy Roddick
- 94. Ford Auto Shows
- 95. Simms Furniture
- 96. The Thunderbird – Univ. Journalism Dept. magazine
- 98. Plugins as modular extensions
- 100. Um...that's it!
- 103. Use
- 104. Develop
- 105. Contribute
- 106. WordPress.tv
- 108. Saturday, February 28 th
- 109. 9:30 – 5 (schedule TBD)
- 111. An InteractiveTour
Editor's Notes
- Let's talk about WordPress as a CMS What is a CMS? CMS = Content Management System Tools that provide a workflow for publishing collaborative content for multiple users. * Examples: * Drupal: php / MySQL * Joomla: php / MySQL * Xoops: php / MySQL * Plone: python / various DBs WordPress * open source CMS * originally focused on blogging * but has evolved far beyond those humble beginnings