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Web Domination An introduction to WordPress

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Where WordPress started, where it is now and how Open Source made that possible.

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Web Domination

An introduction to WordPress

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Baki Goxhaj

WordPress Developer – @banago

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What isWordPress

Created by Matt Mullenweg & Mike Little in 2003

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There was Blogger. There was MovableType. There was a b2. There were all these different ones, but b2 was the only one that was open source.

 – Matt Mullenweg

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Me &WordPress

We met about 8 years ago when I started to write

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Me &WordPress

We met about 8 years ago when I started to write

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I  wrote about my frustrations

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I  wrote about my research

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I  wrote about how it feels to be a fshatar

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Looking for anaudience

I needed a way to publish my articles online

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Peshku Pa Ujë

Peshku pa ujë was initially build on WordPress

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BANAGOwas born

I then built my own blog on WordPress

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Passion toProfession

I started selling WrodPress services

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8 longYears

WordPress grew to take over the Web

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StatsFun

What are the numbers

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22.0%

 Percentage of websites running WordPress – w3techs.com 

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59.8%

 Percentage of websites that run CMSs using WordPress – w3techs.com 

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HowCome?

Factors why WordPress did so well

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1.Open Source

WordPress is open source software and free to use

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2.Focus

WordPress tried to solve only one problem: blogging

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3.Easy

Very easy to install, setup and use out of the box

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4.Blogging

Initial success was because blogging became popular

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5.Technology

PHP/MySQL hosting is easy and cheap

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6.Themes

Abundance of free and premium themes

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7.Plugins

Abundance of free and premium plugins

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8.Developers

Low learning curve/easy to start developing

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10.Backwardcompatibility 

End users are the number one priority

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NowIs Great

WordPress is a massive success and leading the way

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FutureSeems Bright

WordPress is conquering new territoires every day 

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Issue:CodeArchitecture

Developers are not the number one priority

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TheOpportunity

A great opportunity for new developers looking for work

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Success is replicable

Learn from the success of WordPress

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