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Jack Lenox
May 15, 2012
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Why WordPress is the framework of the future!
My talk at FOWD London 2012.
Jack Lenox
May 15, 2012
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Transcript
Why WordPress is the framework of the future! By Jack
Lenox
WordPress is the most popular CMS on the web
Its behind 14.7% of Alexa’s top million sites
As of August 2011 it manages 22% of all new
websites (in the US)
You’re in good company...
A few golden rules • Use as few plugins as
possible • Always check through the WordPress function library when implementing something unprecedented http://codex.wordpress.org/ Function_Reference • Build advanced functionality into the theme rather than creating lots of extra custom plugins
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Anatomy of a theme • header.php • sidebar.php • footer.php
• index.php • archive.php • page.php • single.php • functions.php
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Part 1 How to “deWordPressify” your site
1. Externalise your /wp-content/ directory
Voila! (In wp-config.php)
2. Properly customise your login, registration and forgotten password pages
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Login Page (In login.php)
Login redirects (In functions.php)
3. How to use custom post types, and make the
most of them
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Custom Post Types (In functions.php)
Part 2 Give users control over their own profiles and
data
1. Front end profile management for users
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2. Custom fields in user management
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Part 3 Really cool stuff
1. How to set up a highly customisable API for
your site (really easily!)
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2. How to validate users and access user-specific data from
a mobile app
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I hope this proves useful, I’d love to know how
you get on: @jacklenox
[email protected]