SEPTEMBER 25,26,27 - SMW TURIN 2012
Giuliano Ambrosio
   26 years old
   WordPress Lover


Maurizio Pelizzone
   37 years old
   WordPress Lover




                      ABOUT US
#WPCON2012




WORDPRESS IS 9 YEARS OLD
• 56 million WordPress.com sites in the World 1
• 54.6 % content management system market share 2
• More than 21,000 plugins (September 2012 ) 3
• More than 1.600 free themes (September 2012) 4
• + 18 MLN WordPress 3.4 download (June 13, 2012 ) 5
1. http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
2. http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
3. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
4. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
5. http://wordpress.org/download/counter/




                                                WORDPRESS’S NUMBERS
29.70%
                                                                      WordPress
                                                                      Joomla
                                                             54.30%   Drupal
          6.80%                                                       Other

                    9.20%


                              CMS’S USAGE FOR WEBSITES
1. http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
   Full standard compliance
   Multiple authors
   Multisite
   User Roles
   Custom post type
   Custom taxonomies
   XML-RPC interface
   Template and Plugin auto-install system
   Automatic update (core, plugins, themes)
   Hierarchic menu generator
   Image editing
   Full IIS Compatibity


                                    MAIN FEATURES
0.7                     27 May 2003

1.0   Miles Davis       3 January 2004

1.5   Strayhorn         17 February 2005

2.0   Duke              31 December 2005

2.2   Getz              16 May 2007

2.3   Dexter            24 September 2007

2.5   Brecker           29 March 2008

2.7   Coltrane          11 December 2008

2.8   Baker             10 June 2009

2.9   Carmen            19 December 2009

3.0   Thelonious        17 July 2010

3.1   Reinhardt         23 February 2011

3.2   George Gershwin   4 July 2011

3.3   Sonny Stitt       12 December 2011

3.4   Grant Green       13 June 2012




                                      RELEASE HISTORY
• Blog engine

• “WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal
  publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web
  standards, and usability.”

• “WordPress is web software you can use to create a
  beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress
  is both free and priceless at the same time”

• Application platform



                   WORDPRESS EVOLUTION
“One of the things I’ve been working on
 for the past few months is a radical
 simplification of the interface.”
                -Matt Mullenweg, Founder of WordPress
• http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/23/simple-wordpress-mobile-matt-mullenweg/
• http://wpcandy.com/reports/matt-mullenweg-on-radically-simplified-wordpress
• http://wplifeguard.com/radical-simplification-to-wordpress-is-in-the-works/




                                                   WHAT’S NEXT?
USE CASE
EXAMPLES
STANDARD BLOG
NEWS MAGAZINE
REAL ESTATE
BOOKMARK SERVICES
BOOK SHOP
CONTACT MANAGER
UNDER CONSTRUCTION PAGE
PREMIUM
TEMPLATES
ISSUE TRACKING SYSTEM
http://www.appthemes.com/themes/quality-control/
ECOMMERCE
http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/
CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY
http://themeforest.net/item/sofa-opnpress-publishing-platform/146753ref=ayman3011
INTRANET
IDEAS
PRIVATE MICROBLOGGING
DOCUMENT REVISION
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-document-revisions/
https://github.com/benbalter/WP-Document-Revisions
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collabpress/
http://collabpress.org/
PERSONAL
BRANDING
WORDPRESS POWER POLITICS
http://mashable.com/2012/09/17/politics-wordpress/
WORDPRESS POWER POLITICS
http://mashable.com/2012/09/17/politics-wordpress/
+BRAND REPUTATION
+COMUNICATION
+TESTING
+SKILLS IMPROVEMENT
SOCIAL MEDIA
SOCIAL MEDIA
SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTON
SOCIAL MEDIA STREAM
https://twitter.com/JuliusDesign/status/250364364685729792




                                                   TWITTER STATUS
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
TWITTER OEMBED
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlFiOd5dcUk




                                                  YOUTUBE VIDEO
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
YOUTUBE OEMBED
http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
FOR YOUR
DEVELOPER
 Update and maintainance
 Use a strong password
 Restrict access to Login page
 File Monitor
 Backup




                              SECURITY TIPS
WordPress is a powerfull
application but it’s not a
«silver bullet».

                   CONCLUSION
?

    QUESTIONS?
Thank you!
             Giuliano Ambrosio
             info@juliusdesign.net
             http://juliusdesign.net
             Twitter: @JuliusDesign

             Maurizio Pelizzone
             maurizio@mavida.com
             http://maurizio.mavida.com
             Twitter: @miziomon

WordPress: Smart Ideas for Startup - SMW torino 2012