Pragmatic WordPress Workflow

WordPress has quickly become the world’s most popular content management system. Because of this many good and bad practices have come to light. In this session Kevin will talk about his experience with WordPress and what his workflow looks like.
In this session you will not learn the a best practice but you will learn a pragmatic one. You will learn how to avoid a multitude of plugins. You will find out when to avoid WordPress altogether. You will learn how to brand WordPress. Is you want to learn how to secure WordPress, backup WordPress and theme WordPress like a pro this session is for you.

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1. Pragmatic WordPress
   WorkFlow
   with Kevin Dees
   at Indieconf Raleigh 2012
   https://speakerdeck.com/kevindees/
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2. Kevin Dees
   Developer
   at Robojuice in Greenville SC
   kevindees.cc
   @kevindees
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3. Credit: Don O'Brien, License: Creative Commons
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4. Problem?
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7. DRY Toolbox
   • Plugins
   • Themes
   • GitHub
   • jQuery Plugins
   • CSS Frameworks
   • WordPress Frameworks
   Don't Repeat Yourself
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8. http://themble.com/bones/
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9. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/
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10. As of October 31st 2012, both Sidebar
    Manager and WooSEO will be removed from
    the WooFramework, in favour of WooSidebars
    and WordPress SEO by Yoast, respectively.
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    ~ WooThemes
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11. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
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12. http://www.gravityforms.com/
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13. http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/
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14. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/
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18. Project Requirements
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20. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
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21. 50+
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22. https://github.com/kevindees/advanced_custom_post_types
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25. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
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26. https://github.com/farinspace/wpalchemy
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28. Custom WordPress Theme
    Options?
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30. https://github.com/devinsays/options-framework-plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-logo/
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32. What will your
    process look like?
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33. Designer?
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34. Developer?
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35. Many can solve the problem
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36. Few can build an experience
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