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Prepared for Boston Tech Meetup on May, 02, 2012 Jon Bishop • Web Developer • 77 N. Washington St., 8 th Floor, Boston MA 02114 • 617.837.8158 Did WordPress Do That?

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WordPress is the most widely used Content Management System because it's easy to use, easy to customize and it's free! What a lot of people don't realize is how powerful WordPress can be with the right tools. This presentation will show you how powerful WordPress can be with minimal knowledge of how to design or develop websites. We'll cover the themes and plugins you need to know about and hopefully do some things you didn't think WordPress could do. This presentation is for everyone whether you are using WordPress already or not. Users, non-users and developers alike should all walk away having learned something new.

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Prepared for Boston Tech Meetup on May, 02, 2012

Jon Bishop • Web Developer • 77 N. Washington St., 8th Floor, Boston MA 02114 • 617.837.8158

Did WordPress Do That?

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About AMP Agency

• Independently-owned, integrated communications agency

• Clients Include: Hasbro, Maybelline New York, Samsonite, Intel, Princess Cruises, NFL PLAYERS and Ansell Healthcare

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What Is WordPress?

WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL

• Great software should work with little configuration and setup• Provide features that 80% or more of end users will actually use• Avoid putting the weight of technical choices on our end users• Every version of WordPress should be easier and more enjoyable to

use than the last• Three major versions a year

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Some Facts

WordPress.com is run using the Multisite version of WordPress and estimates are that more than 32 million sites are active on a single installation of WordPress Multisite

25% of all websites are published with WordPress

63% of the top 10 million sites are using WordPress

• Joomla = 11%

• Drupal = 8%

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/wordpress-stats-and-numbers-breaking-their-own-records/http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

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The Community

19,183 plugins have been contributed to WordPress.org with over 292,086,198 downloads1

1,546 themes have been contributed to WordPress.org with over 292,086,198 downloads2

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

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WordPress as a Multisite Network

Best Buy uses WordPress MU to power 1050 local store blogs

Best Buy aggregates important store data and passed it back to key enterprise applications via custom web services

Best Buy

http://wordpress.org/showcase/best-buy/

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WordPress as a Shopping Cart

• Seamless integration with existing WordPress sites

• Lots of options

• Variety of feature sets

theClovers.net• Shopp plugin• Responsive storefront

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WordPress as a Social Network

Extended Profiles - Messaging - FriendsGroups - Activity Streams - Personal Blogs

Kodingen.com• Cloud Development

Environment• Buddypress

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WordPress as a Job Board

Sell job listingsAccept resumes Tools for job seekers and employers

jobs.woothemes.comUses JobRoller

• appthemes.com/themes/jobroller

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WordPress in School

• Manage Courses

• Submit HW Online

• Use Blog For HW

AdamBrown.info• Uses MU for courses• Built KB Gradebook

plugin

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WordPress to Managing Locations

FestObsessed.com• MapPress• BuddyPress

• Create a map with custom markers that link back to posts or display HTML

• Create multiple maps

• Includes API

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mappress-google-maps-for-wordpress

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WordPress Your Way

Theme Development - The sky is the limit

BruceSpringsteen.net• Parallax• Isotope• ScrollTo

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WordPress as a Service

• Using WordPress to develop applications

• Built in user roles, custom post types and free plugins

HappyTables.com• WP MU• Yoast SEO• W3TC

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WordPress as a Service

Rentablities.com

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WordPress as an E-Book

• Use content from within WordPress or external feeds

• Outline, order, and edit your work

• Export as PDF, EPUB, RTF and TEI

http://anthologize.org

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Front End Editing in WordPress

• Log in and edit content from the front end

• Compatible with any theme

• Edit posts, pages, custom post types, comments, widgets

• Uses Aloha Editor so you see what you get in real time

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor

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WordPress On The Go

• Responsive Themes/Frameworks

• Mobile Plugins

• Native Appso iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia and WebOS

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ManageWP

Manage all of your sites from one dashboard

• Upgrade WordPress, plugins and themes

• Perform automatic backup

• Clone and set up new sites in minutes

• Edit content in bulk

https://managewp.com

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Boston WordPress Meetup

• We are currently the 2nd largest WordPress meetup in the world with 1290+ members

• We are growing every day and our current team can not handle the workload

• We are looking for 1 or 2 very energetic, knowledgeable contributors to join our team

• Please email Kurt ([email protected]) and Jon ([email protected]) if interested

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Boston WordCamp

• July 14th and 15th

• Boston University

• Please apply if interested in:• Speaking

• Volunteering

• Sponsoring

• http://2012.boston.wordcamp.org

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Thanks!

Jon BishopWeb Developer @ AMP Agency

WordPress Plugins:•Socialize•HubSpot for WordPress

Website / JonBishop.comTwitter / @JonDBishop