Why WordPress is the framework of the future!

My talk at FOWD London 2012.

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1. Why WordPress is the
   framework of the future!
   By Jack Lenox
   

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2. WordPress is the most
   popular CMS on the web
   

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3. Its behind 14.7% of
   Alexa’s top million sites
   

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4. As of August 2011 it
   manages 22% of all new
   websites (in the US)
   

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5. You’re in good company...
   

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6. 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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8. Anatomy of a theme
   • header.php
   • sidebar.php
   • footer.php
   • index.php
   • archive.php
   • page.php
   • single.php
   • functions.php
   

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10. Part 1
    How to “deWordPressify”
    your site
    

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11. 1. Externalise your
    /wp-content/ directory
    

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12. Voila!
    (In wp-config.php)
    

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13. 2. Properly customise
    your login, registration
    and forgotten password
    pages
    

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17. Login Page
    (In login.php)
    

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18. Login redirects
    (In functions.php)
    

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19. 3. How to use custom
    post types, and make the
    most of them
    

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23. Custom Post Types
    (In functions.php)
    

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24. Part 2
    Give users control over
    their own profiles and
    data
    

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25. 1. Front end profile
    management for users
    

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28. 2. Custom fields in user
    management
    

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30. Part 3
    Really cool stuff
    

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31. 1. How to set up a highly
    customisable API for
    your site (really easily!)
    

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34. 2. How to validate users
    and access user-specific
    data from a mobile app
    

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38. I hope this proves useful,
    I’d love to know how
    you get on:
    @jacklenox
    jack@jottify.com
    

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