Presented at Wilmington WordCamp 2017: WordPress has grown from a humble, open source blogging tool into the most dominant site development platform in the world. But does its growth, flexibility and robustness extend all the way to the enterprise? IBM software developer and architect Ian Oeschger talks about a large scale adoption of WordPress at IBM developerWorks, about user management and security, REST APIs, web standards, custom types, performance and other features that work in the enterprise, and some that do not.

1. WordPress Development
in the Enterprise
Ian Oeschger, IBM developerWorks

2. •Overview
•The Platform
•IT/Ops

3. Overview

4. WordPress! At IBM!

5. Developer engagement

6. A Developer Center
A developer center is a little bespoke microsite, typically
focused around an IBM offering, that we build and turn over
to our IBM developer colleagues so that they can go nuts
with it.
Example: Big Insights in https://developer.ibm.com/hadoop
We tell them it is built to be, for them, a nimble, authentic,
beautiful platform for engaging their developer communities.
“Dev2Dev”

7. A Developer Center

8. Another

9. Developer Centers
• S

10. Developer Centers
They started out as experiments but now:
100
About a hundred developer centers
1,000,000
About a million unique views a month
5? 6?
An integrated team of designers, builders, and IT
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A nascent strategy for putting
them all together into a single network

11. Platform
•Theme
•Content types
•Authoring Tools
•Plugins

12. Theme

13. Theme

14. Theme

15. Content types *
•Docs, natch
•Resource manager
(“assets”, “your stuff”)
•Recipes
•Courses

16. Authoring Tools *
•Shortcodes!
[pn-getposts]
[pn-grid]
[pn-brick]
…
•Templates, but very few
Brochureware, e.g.

17. Authoring Tools *
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18. Plugins *

19. Platform scale-up
•Documentation!
•Automation (starter pages)
•Multi-tenancy, “hihacking”, spaces
•Hubs, with bosses
•Aggregation (pn-getposts et al)

20. IT/Ops

21. IT / Ops
•WordPress Multi-site
•LAMP on IHS (IBM’s web server)
•Hosted in SoftLayer
•Authentication: SSO tricks
•Analytics: Hotjar, GA, Coremetrics,
Piwik, Optimize.ly…
•Very simple topology:

22. IT / Ops

23. IT / Ops
•RTC client and repo -> GitHub
•Production and staging servers

24. IT / Ops scale-up
•Softlayer pods
•Mirroring on Enterprise MySQL
•Number of servers
•Edge servers, Akamai, CDN…that
stuff
b/c Number of requests on each
page is the issue not page load

25. Thanks! And links
• Devcenters
• https://developer.ibm.com/bpm
• https://developer.ibm.com/blockchain
• http://ibm.com/developerworks/connect
• Content types
• https://developer.ibm.com/hadoop/docs
• https://developer.ibm.com/recipes
• https://developer.ibm.com/blockchain/resources
• https://developer.ibm.com/courses
• Shortcodes
• https://developer.ibm.com/dw/docs/get-posts-shortcode/
• https://developer.ibm.com/dw/docs/bricks-the-building-
blocks-of-the-theme/
• https://developer.ibm.com/watson-analytics/