Building on WordPress for Enterprise

Enterprise work tends to mean bigger usage, viewing and more red tape than you know what to do with.

During this talk, Jenny will share her exposure of building custom WordPress solutions for large clients. It will include coding practices, quick scaling wins, and a collection of anecdotes so that you can learn from her experience.

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1. BUilding on wordPRess for Enterprise Jenny Wong @miss_jwo
2. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Jenny Community Advocate & WordPress Engineer
3. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Fast talker
4. @miss_jwo #phpconfph hmn.md
5. @miss_jwo #phpconfph WordPress at Scale
6. @miss_jwo #phpconfph But WordPress is just for blogs
7. @miss_jwo #phpconfph …and blogs are small sites
8. @miss_jwo #phpconfph So, why would you need to scale WordPress?
9. @miss_jwo #phpconfph wHat is a blog?
10. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Website, with content
11. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Yet another blog
12. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Yet another blog
13. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Yet another site
14. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Building for Enterprise
15. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Red Tape
16. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Clients can be a pain, regardless size of project
17. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Understanding why is important
18. @miss_jwo #phpconfph What is done?
19. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Ask for the procedure to sign offs
20. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Ask for time-scale for sign offs
21. @miss_jwo #phpconfph This can be a long time
22. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Technical Challenges
23. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Technical debt
24. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Best Practises
25. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Best Practises
26. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Standardize Practises
27. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Coding standards
28. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Testing standards
29. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Documentation standards
30. @miss_jwo #phpconfph WordPress standards
31. @miss_jwo #phpconfph WordPress standards https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/best- practices/coding-standards/
33. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Pick something, document it
34. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Version Control
35. @miss_jwo #phpconfph There is no excuse to not version control
36. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Standardise a version control workflow
37. @miss_jwo #phpconfph New feature, new branch
38. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Commit often
39. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Write meaningful commit messages
40. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Push ( your feature branch ) often
41. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Pull requests
42. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Code review
43. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Never merge your own code in
44. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Environments
45. @miss_jwo #phpconfph All environments should mimic your production environment
46. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Have more than one environment
47. @miss_jwo #phpconfph wp-config.php
48. @miss_jwo #phpconfph wp-config-local.php
49. WP-CONFIG.PHP
50. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Plugins
51. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Add features to WordPress
52. @miss_jwo #phpconfph One functionality in one plugin
53. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Not your code?
54. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Code review
55. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Code review every time
56. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Don’t want clients to deactivate plugins
57. @miss_jwo #phpconfph wp-content/mu-plugins/
58. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Client specific Code
59. @miss_jwo #phpconfph mu-plugins/client-core/
60. @miss_jwo #phpconfph wordpress At Scale
61. @miss_jwo #phpconfph What is scale?
62. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Does it matter it’s WordPress?
63. @miss_jwo #phpconfph The core is PHP
64. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Any way to scale PHP, is a way to scale WordPress* *Some work better than others
65. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Useful server plugins
66. USEFUL PLUGINS S3 Uploads uploads folder in an S3 bucket
67. USEFUL PLUGINS AWS SES wp_mail() Drop-in sending mail via Amazon’s SES infrastructure
68. USEFUL PLUGINS Batcache full-page caching solution for WordPress
69. USEFUL PLUGINS Memcache Object Cache persistent object caching in WordPress
70. USEFUL PLUGINS Cavalcade replacement for WordPress’ built-in cron system
71. USEFUL PLUGINS Tachyon image resizing processor built with Amazon S3 & CloudFront
72. USEFUL PLUGINS LudicrousDB supports replication, failover, load balancing, & partitioning
73. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Useful Dev tools
74. QUERY MONITOR
75. USER SWITCHER
76. WP CLI
77. 10up.github.io/Engineering-Best-Practices
78. engineering.hmn.md
79. @miss_jwo #phpconfph summary
80. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Consistency
81. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Standards & quality
82. Maraming salamat
83. @miss_jwo #phpconfph Questions
84. Jenny Wong t: @miss_jwo jenny@hmn.md