How The Washington Post uses WordPress

Transcript

1. How The Washington Post Uses WordPress “So we deleted the themes directory?” “Yea, pretty much.”
3. The Usual Suspects @YuriVictor is also a point of VIP contact. You can tell by the sweatshirt he wears everyday. • Dedicated? 
 Kinda… • Easy to pick up
 Easy to pass off • “See a need, fill a need”
5. Think fast, talk fast • c1.xlarge + m1.large? ✔️ • Multisite? ✔️ • Local Development —> Development Server —> (coming soon: Staging) —> Production Server • Deployment is Fabulous (and now with even more Jenkins!) • Testing! • Re-usable, modular code goes in themes, not plugins No more shell commands to deploy to dev! Yay!!
6. Enginitorial • Software engineering - Service • Editorial - Post centric • How do you deal with both? Eh… • Engineer out of doing editorial work I don't see a Cookie Monster tweet I see a Cookie Monster Instagram
7. So…WordPress? Let’s talk admin But the people love it so! Greetings from the West Coast.
10. What’s an annoying administrative task we can automate? keywords
11. Step 1: Build a keyword service (powered on Stanford NLP!) Step 2: Send WordPress content, title, etc. to keyword service. Step 3: Populate post with awesome keywords from service Step 4: ??? Step 5: Be cool
13. Let’s talk photos.
18. You know what would be cool? If finding, publishing, using images in Methode was simpler. ! That’s not cool. You know what’s cool? Not having to go through Methode at all to do all that.
21. Make sensible stuff in an admin that makes sense.
22. Let’s talk about overly complex systems Methode GOG
26. So how does this get produced…? wp-cli. ! “Hey, so we’ve got this xml feed…” “Cool, let me run this script…and now you’ve got a guide.”
27. Let’s talk about long form journalism
29. Too much work.
31. Looks pretty nifty. Designers can focus on making interesting designs. Graphics can focus on building out interesting graphics. Focus on the function you’re best at.
33. Make it modular.
34. Let’s talk about the Grid
36. Live blog grid created in WordPress Live blog posts created in WordPress Live blog posts sent to Grid **Grid Magic*** Live blog posts presented by WordPress
37. Now we have an awesome live blogging platform, what can we build in WordPress that makes annoying live blogging tasks easier?
38. Build awesome prototypes in WordPress quickly. ! If it works, can we make it a service? ! Can we use what WordPress provides to interact with and integrate that service seamlessly?
39. Moving forward • GoF • Example: Analytics code tied to main theme meant different WP projects implemented it differently. Build out a plugin, utilize “builder-esque” pattern, create an analytics plugin that can be used anywhere • More grunt, more linting, more automated deployments, more testing • Deploy with dependencies?