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Who am I?
• A mother of a teenager • A freelancer collaborating with Enfusión and
other agencies• Working on the web side from 2006• Working in desktop applications from 1996• With a history degree never used• Passionate for the web• Running ww.tresxnou.cat and now
www.paddingzero.com
What is Wordpress?
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. (wikipedia)
What is a wcms?
A WCMS is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. (wikipedia)
• Easy to setup• Low learning curve• Thousands of plugins• Thousands of themes• Big developer community• Friendly and easy user interface• SEO friendly• Output standard, semanthic and clean code
(depending on the theme, of course!)
What is good?
• Thousands of plugins• Thousands of themes• Lack of in-build multilingual capability• Scalability• Lack of an easiest way to implement
caching • More flexible and powerfull user
permisions management
What is bad?
• The WYSIWYG editor the TinyMCE editor in WP has a lazy behaviour with HTML paragraph tags <p></p>
• Media management have to be improved• More advanced management of pages
and subpages
What is ugly?
• Blogs• Galleries• Portfolios
• Magazines• Professional sites
• Shopping
What kind of sites we can do?
• Blogs• Galleries• Portfolios
• Magazines• Professional sites• Enterprise sites
• Shopping
What kind of sites we can do?
• Blogs• Galleries• Portfolios
• Magazines• Professional sites• Enterprise sites
• Shopping
Almost everything....
What kind of sites we can do?
• Community sites
When can you use Wordpress?
When client needs:- update content often- update content on their own - update content easily
When can you use Wordpress?
When client needs:
When client has:
- update content often- update content on their own - update content easily
When can you use Wordpress?
When client needs:
When client has:
- a low budget
- update content often- update content on their own - update content easily
When can you use Wordpress?
When client needs:
When client has:
- a low budget - no time to get the site running
- update content often- update content on their own - update content easily
When not to use wordpress?
In small and simple sites
In very large and complex sites- With thousands of pages or- With complex workflow rules or- With lots of distinct roles for 100s of users or- With a high-level traffic expected
– With less than 10 pages and– With no database needs and– With no frequently updates
When not to use wordpress?
In small and simple sites
In very large and complex sites- With thousands of pages or- With complex workflow rules or- With lots of distinct roles for 100s of users or- With a high-level traffic expected
• create a new theme from scratch• create a new theme/child from a
framework• take a good theme that has a similar
layout to your desing and rebuild it• take a good theme and tunning it
How to use wordpress?
Different aproachs: more
php skills
less
Budget
• Child Themes• Page templates• Widgets• Menu building tool• Custom fields beyond build-in fields• Custom content types beyond posts & pages• Custom taxonomies beyond tags & categories• Shortcodes • Filter hooks and action hooks• Adding styles to editor
How to use wordpress?
• Smashing magazine• Sitepoint• Techcrunch• Nathional Geographic Magazine Netherlands• CBS New York• The official Star Wars• Number10 UK government office• Kb24 (Kobe Bryant)• CNN politics• Much more....
Where are using wordpress?
http://sylvesterstallone.com/
Silvester Stalone
Thinkspace: Art gallery
http://thinkspacegallery.com/
• Elegant themes• Woo themes• Press 75• I themes• Theme forest• Studio press• Elmastudio
Where are...?
• Thesis• Genesis• Page lines
• Elegant themes• Woo themes• Press 75• I themes• Theme forest• Studio press• Elmastudio
Where are...?
good themes:
• Thesis• Genesis• Page lines
• Elegant themes• Woo themes• Press 75• I themes• Theme forest• Studio press• Elmastudio
Where are...?
good themes:
good frameworks:
• Thesis• Genesis• Page lines
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Pagehttp://net.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/wordpress/http://wpcandy.com/http://wpmu.org/http://wordpress.tv/http://core.trac.wordpress.org/http://ayudawordpress.com/
Where are...?
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Pagehttp://net.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/wordpress/http://wpcandy.com/http://wpmu.org/http://wordpress.tv/http://core.trac.wordpress.org/http://ayudawordpress.com/
Where are...? good resources: