Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Why WordPress is the framework of the future!
Search
Jack Lenox
May 15, 2012
Technology
7
4.6k
Why WordPress is the framework of the future!
My talk at FOWD London 2012.
Jack Lenox
May 15, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Jack Lenox
See All by Jack Lenox
How better performing websites can help save the planet
jacklenox
3
950
How better performing websites can help save the planet
jacklenox
0
1.7k
What WordPress developers can do about climate change
jacklenox
0
270
An introduction to the WordPress REST API
jacklenox
1
230
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, and Test-Driven Development
jacklenox
3
470
Building Websites with the REST API
jacklenox
0
310
There and Back Again: A Developer's Tale
jacklenox
3
1.9k
Writing PHP with React
jacklenox
0
430
Theming, React and the REST API
jacklenox
0
520
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
知覚とデザイン
rinchoku
1
610
だいたい分かった気になる 『SREの知識地図』 / introduction-to-sre-knowledge-map-book
katsuhisa91
PRO
3
1.5k
ソースを読む時の思考プロセスの例-MkDocs
sat
PRO
1
300
AI-Readyを目指した非構造化データのメダリオンアーキテクチャ
r_miura
1
340
プレイドのユニークな技術とインターンのリアル
plaidtech
PRO
1
460
IBC 2025 動画技術関連レポート / IBC 2025 Report
cyberagentdevelopers
PRO
2
210
仕様駆動開発を実現する上流工程におけるAIエージェント活用
sergicalsix
2
580
Open Table Format (OTF) が必要になった背景とその機能 (2025.10.28)
simosako
2
370
AI AgentをLangflowでサクッと作って、1日働かせてみた!
yano13
1
160
Okta Identity Governanceで実現する最小権限の原則 / Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege with Okta Identity Governance
tatsumin39
0
180
「タコピーの原罪」から学ぶ間違った”支援” / the bad support of Takopii
piyonakajima
0
150
AI連携の新常識! 話題のMCPをはじめて学ぶ!
makoakiba
0
140
Featured
See All Featured
Documentation Writing (for coders)
carmenintech
75
5.1k
What's in a price? How to price your products and services
michaelherold
246
12k
Thoughts on Productivity
jonyablonski
70
4.9k
How To Stay Up To Date on Web Technology
chriscoyier
791
250k
How STYLIGHT went responsive
nonsquared
100
5.9k
Six Lessons from altMBA
skipperchong
29
4k
Building an army of robots
kneath
305
46k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
garrettdimon
PRO
307
110k
Agile that works and the tools we love
rasmusluckow
331
21k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
3.1k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
colly
88
4.9k
VelocityConf: Rendering Performance Case Studies
addyosmani
333
24k
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
None
Anatomy of a theme • header.php • sidebar.php • footer.php
• index.php • archive.php • page.php • single.php • functions.php
None
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
None
None
None
Login Page (In login.php)
Login redirects (In functions.php)
3. How to use custom post types, and make the
most of them
None
None
None
Custom Post Types (In functions.php)
Part 2 Give users control over their own profiles and
data
1. Front end profile management for users
None
None
2. Custom fields in user management
None
Part 3 Really cool stuff
1. How to set up a highly customisable API for
your site (really easily!)
None
None
2. How to validate users and access user-specific data from
a mobile app
None
None
None
I hope this proves useful, I’d love to know how
you get on: @jacklenox
[email protected]