Seeing your content through WordPress eyes

A walk through the decision-making process behind the development of a WordPress content model: identifying and defining post types, taxonomies, custom fields, connection methods.

Slides probably don't make much sense without me talking over them. Sorry.

Transcript

1. Seeing your content through WordPress eyes Flickr: Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel
2. Flickr: secretlondon123
3. Add New
4. Flickr: Dvortygirl
6. Flickr: Jo Naylor
7. wp_commentmeta wp_comments wp_links wp_options wp_postmeta wp_posts wp_terms wp_term_relationships wp_term_taxonomy wp_usermeta wp_users
9. What substantially different types of content do I have? Flickr: Sebastiaan ter Burg
10. Objective: To build a database of election constituencies and the candidates standing in each of them
14. • Name • Reference numbers • Current MP, Party • Historic results • Candidates • Name • Party • Social media accounts For each constituency: For each candidate:
15. Constituency: Custom Fields
16. Candidate: Advanced Custom Fields
17. Do I want to group items based on any of these? Flickr: Sebastiaan ter Burg
18. Do I want to change styling based on any of these? Flickr: Sebastiaan ter Burg
19. For each candidate: div <?php post_class(); ?> div class=“logo”
20. But what if it’s a post type and a grouping method? Flickr: Sebastiaan ter Burg
21. • Name • Reference numbers • Current MP, Party • Historic results • Candidates • Name • Party • Social media accounts For each constituency: For each candidate:
22. • Sophisticated • Creates extra database tables • Not permitted by WP VIP • New external dependency • Find it at github.com/scribu • Simplistic • Security & sustainability • Potentially* more efficient • Instantly familiar • FInd it at github.com/cftp Posts 2 Posts plugin Sync’ed Taxonomy
24. Releases Songs Artists Currency Role Type
25. Photo: Deep Purple Ticket Museum Working against a restriction often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries. 
 Jon Lord, Deep Purple