WordPress Greek Community 4th meetup - Veroia, Trikala - WordPress as a full featured CMS - Takis Bouyouris

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1. WordPress
   as a full featured CMS
   "Extending WordPress with
   custom post types and taxonomies"
   Takis Bouyouris
   Web Developer @ Nevma
   WordPress Greek Community 4th Meetup
   Trikala & Veroia – Sat. 23/05/2015
   

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2. Nice to meet you
   My name is Takis Bouyouris
   Web developer @ Nevma
   

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3. We try to
   Keep the
   WordPress Greek Community
   vibrant and active
   

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4. WordPress Greek Community
   Facebook
   https://facebook.com/groups/WordPressGreekCommunity/
   Twitter
   https://twitter.com/wordpressgrcomm/
   Website
   http://www.wpgc.gr/ and
   http://www.wpgreece.org/
   

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9. Very happy to be
   in Veroia and its
   infamous library
   for the 4th WordPress meetup
   

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10. My goal today is to
    help you understand what
    custom post types and
    taxonomies are and
    motivate you to use them!
    

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11. What is WordPress,
    a blog engine or a CMS?
    A bit of history!
    

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12. WordPress v.1 - 2004
    

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13. Whaaah?
    

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14. WordPress v.1 - 2004
    

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15. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
    

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16. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
    

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17. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
    

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18. WordPress v.2.5 - 2008
    

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19. WordPress v.3.0 - 2010
    

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20. A little better!
    

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21. WordPress v.3.5 - 2012
    

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22. WordPress v.4.0 - 2014
    

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23. Pretty sure that's WordPress!
    

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24. WordPress v.4.0 - 2014
    

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25. WordPress evolution
    not just design-wise
    

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26. WordPress
    v.1 970kb
    v.4.0 18.2mb
    

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27. WordPress
    ~37mil. installations
    x2 with wordpress.com
    2/3 of CMS based websites
    30% of all websites use a CMS
    (src https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage)
    

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28. That is a lot!
    

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29. WordPress has evolved
    into a full featured CMS
    (and even more)
    

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30. Version 1
    Posts & Categories
    

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31. Version 2
    Posts & Pages
    Categories & Tags
    

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32. Version 3
    Custom post types
    Custom taxonomies
    Now, we 're talking, right?
    

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33. Custom post types are like
    posts and pages and
    ...custom taxonomies are like
    categories and tags
    

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34. So, we 've got posts, pages,
    categories and tags and...
    more posts,
    more pages,
    more categories and
    more tags?
    

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35. That all?
    

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36. No!
    What you have is an extensible
    data structure functionality.
    

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37. Extensible data structures!
    

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38. Extensible data structures
    that are simple and available!
    

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39. Custom post types
    Create a new area of special pages
    and name it what you like/need
    

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40. Custom taxonomies
    Create a new ways to categorise
    the post types you manage
    

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41. Example 1: a video club
    Custom post type => movie
    Custom taxonomies =>
    category, studio, country
    

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42. Example 2: a house broker
    Custom post type => house
    Custom taxonomies =>
    house type, area, usage
    

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43. Example 3:
    corporate website common patterns
    Pages => corporate info
    Posts => news/blog
    

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44. Example 3:
    corporate website common patterns
    Custom post type => projects
    Custom taxonomies =>
    project category, project area
    

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45. Example 3:
    Pages =>
    Home page
    Profile
    Services
    Products
    Contact
    etc
    

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46. Example 3:
    Posts =>
    News
    "New website online"
    "Summer sales this week"
    "Latest products"
    etc
    

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47. Example 3:
    Projects =>
    "Supermarket eshop"
    "Developed corporate website"
    "Created logo for customer"
    etc
    

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48. Example 3:
    Project category =>
    website, eshop, design, etc
    Project area =>
    Athens, Larissa, Veroia, etc
    

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49. Let's make a custom post type
    from scratch
    

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50. OMG he's gonna show code!
    

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52. OMG that was code!
    

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54. The important bits:
    name
    taxonomies
    hierarchical
    capability
    

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55. Let's make a custom taxonomy
    from scratch
    

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57. OMG somebody stop him!
    

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59. The important bits:
    name
    post_types
    hierarchical
    

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60. Relax!
    There are tools to generate
    this code:
    "Generate WP"
    http://generatewp.com
    

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62. There are plugins with a UI
    "GD Custom Post Types and
    Taxonomies Tools"
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/
    

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64. So, not so bad after all...
    

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65. We may also need
    custom fields
    users and roles
    settings API
    plugin API
    

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66. And of course
    the templates
    (or the theme)
    to show them
    

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67. And now we have a modern, fully
    featured, extensible CMS
    

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68. WordPress
    Blog engine =>
    CMS =>
    Application platform =>
    (Mobile application platform)
    Next?
    

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69. WordPress
    is a
    full featured
    web platform...
    

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70. ...
    and don't let anyone
    tell you otherwise.
    

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72. WordPress Greek Community
    Facebook
    https://facebook.com/groups/WordPressGreekCommunity/
    Twitter
    https://twitter.com/wordpressgrcomm/
    Website
    http://www.wpgc.gr/
    http://www.wpgreece.org/
    

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73. Thanks for listening!
    

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74. Questions?
    

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75. Takis Bouyouris, Nevma
    takis@nevma.gr
    https://www.facebook.com/takis.bouyouris
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/takisbouyouris
    Sorry and thank you SNL :-)
    

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