The WordPress-Powered Startup

First presented at WordCamp Hamilton 2015.

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1. THE
 WORDPRESS-POWERED
 STARTUP
2. @ C H R I S VA N PAT T E N
4. @ N A R J C A S T
5. B L A S T O F FA P P. C O M
6. G O F I R S T H A N D . C O M
7. THE
 WORDPRESS-POWERED
 STARTUP
8. STARTUPS (SPECIFICALLY, TECH STARTUPS)
10. How can we search faster?
12. APPS (SPECIFICALLY, WEB APPS)
13. A computer service that completes a task or action on behalf of a user.
14. Step 1 DEVELOP YOUR STARTUP IDEA
15. What does it look like?
16. What data will you need to collect?
17. How will interactions feel?
19. Step 2 CHOOSE A PATH
20. Concierge Functional
21. Concierge
 A human, disguised as a computer service, that completes a task or action on behalf of a user.
23. Functional
 A real computer service that completes a task or action on behalf of a user.
24. Step 3 MAP YOUR IDEA TO THE
 WORDPRESS DATA MODEL
25. (What’s that?)
27. There are 4 object
 “types” in WordPress
28. Posts
29. Posts TAXONOMIES
30. Posts TAXONOMIES users
31. Posts TAXONOMIES users comments
32. Posts TAXONOMIES users comments
33. Poststaxonomiesuserscomments Map your idea… …to the WordPress data model
34. Posts taxonomies users comments
35. Posts taxonomies users comments
36. G O F I R S T H A N D . C O M Posts taxonomies users comments
37. Posts taxonomies users comments
38. Step 4 START BUILDING
39. FORMS
40. To the GitHub!
41. THANKS :)
42. Questions? @ChrisVanPatten cvp.me/wordcampyhm2015