the world, 23% of the web runs WordPress • Heavily supported– about 800 contributors to the core of WordPress, constantly improving it • Very expandable– Over 34,000 free plugins, 2,500 free themes in the repositories on WordPress.org
plugins for additional functionality and themes for different styles You can have many plugins installed, activated, and running but you can only have 1 theme activated at any given time. • Smaller Core Updates are pushed to your site automatically These could be security patches, small bug patches, etc. They are pushed out in the background every few weeks. You can disable this if you manage a volatile, high-transaction/volume site and complete the updates manually
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Post (Content) Type The only difference is one column in the database. It’s easier to think of posts as relevant to time and pages are outside of that. Both posts and pages can have comments but comments are normally disabled on pages. You can create additional custom post types for anything (e.g. “people, movies, songs, etc”). https:/ /wordpress.org/plugins/pods/ • Custom Fields Fields you can add to post types to manage additional data. Very popular for web developers to use these for clients to manage additional content on complex page layouts. https:/ /wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ • Taxonomies Taxonomies are a way to organize things. One type of taxonomy that comes pre-installed with WordPress are “Categories”. https:/ /wordpress.org/plugins/pods/ • Post Formats 9 post formats are available for themes to support. This support must be built into it. The post formats allow for different post layouts in your blog.
WordPress repository can be updated by its owner automatically. • Don’t modify these theme files, create a child theme instead! • If you’ve made changes to the theme and receive an update from the theme author, your changes will be overwritten!
you are using but need to make a few modifications to the styles, layout, or functionality. • The new style.css file you use in your child theme will overwrite what’s in your parent theme. • The functions.php will load in addition to your parent theme functions file, and will not overwrite. It will load first, before your parent functions. https:/ /codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
*Totally Alison’s opinion, but usually she’s right • seo built in • secure and fast platform • regularly maintained • Other Theme Frameworks: • Thematic • WooFramework + Canvas • Thesis
user to configure, not really for front-end web folks • Many have loads of options available to you to customize the site to your liking. This often causes “bloat”. • Very difficult to manipulate the theme the way you want them.
be forked and crafted into your own creation, some-what of a “boilerplate” for WordPress themes. • There are a handful of skeleton themes that are currently maintained. Some popular ones: • Underscores • Roots / Sage • Bones • We use “Gobble Blank 2” - a starter theme authored by us, using the Bourbon/Neat framework (uses scss). https:/ /github.com/gobblelogic/GobbleBlank2
create the design and functionality a user experiences • Sections of the site would be housed in separate files like the header, footer, sidebar, etc. You would plan which parts go in which files. • WordPress determines which template file to use based on what type of page the user is viewing like a post, page, home page, blog page, category, etc. This is called the template hierarchy!
display dynamic information that is being fed by the user • WordPress offers functions (or template tags) to display or return data (e.g. the_author(); vs. get_the_author();). https:/ /codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
Page Name” on top of your php pages as a comment. • Select the template on an individual page you’re editing. • This page will now use that template file https:/ /codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates
native navigation functions so your admin’s can edit the nav. Generally built into most skeleton themes and regular themes. • Featured image field, edit background and edit color fields can all be activated by the use of these functions as well. https:/ /codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus
Vagrant Vagrants is an evolving Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress dev. https:/ /github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV VV - By Bradp Site wizard for VVV. The easiest way to set up WordPress sites automatically. https:/ /github.com/bradp/vv
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