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
2. Nice to meet you My name is Takis Bouyouris Web developer @ Nevma
3. We try to Keep the WordPress Greek Community vibrant and active
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/
9. Very happy to be in Veroia and its infamous library for the 4th WordPress meetup
10. My goal today is to help you understand what custom post types and taxonomies are and motivate you to use them!
11. What is WordPress, a blog engine or a CMS? A bit of history!
12. WordPress v.1 - 2004
13. Whaaah?
14. WordPress v.1 - 2004
15. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
16. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
17. WordPress v.2 – 2005/6
18. WordPress v.2.5 - 2008
19. WordPress v.3.0 - 2010
20. A little better!
21. WordPress v.3.5 - 2012
22. WordPress v.4.0 - 2014
23. Pretty sure that's WordPress!
24. WordPress v.4.0 - 2014
25. WordPress evolution not just design-wise
26. WordPress v.1 970kb v.4.0 18.2mb
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)
28. That is a lot!
29. WordPress has evolved into a full featured CMS (and even more)
30. Version 1 Posts & Categories
31. Version 2 Posts & Pages Categories & Tags
32. Version 3 Custom post types Custom taxonomies Now, we 're talking, right?
33. Custom post types are like posts and pages and ...custom taxonomies are like categories and tags
34. So, we 've got posts, pages, categories and tags and... more posts, more pages, more categories and more tags?
35. That all?
36. No! What you have is an extensible data structure functionality.
37. Extensible data structures!
38. Extensible data structures that are simple and available!
39. Custom post types Create a new area of special pages and name it what you like/need
40. Custom taxonomies Create a new ways to categorise the post types you manage
41. Example 1: a video club Custom post type => movie Custom taxonomies => category, studio, country
42. Example 2: a house broker Custom post type => house Custom taxonomies => house type, area, usage
43. Example 3: corporate website common patterns Pages => corporate info Posts => news/blog
44. Example 3: corporate website common patterns Custom post type => projects Custom taxonomies => project category, project area
45. Example 3: Pages => Home page Profile Services Products Contact etc
46. Example 3: Posts => News "New website online" "Summer sales this week" "Latest products" etc
47. Example 3: Projects => "Supermarket eshop" "Developed corporate website" "Created logo for customer" etc
48. Example 3: Project category => website, eshop, design, etc Project area => Athens, Larissa, Veroia, etc
49. Let's make a custom post type from scratch
50. OMG he's gonna show code!
52. OMG that was code!
54. The important bits: name taxonomies hierarchical capability
55. Let's make a custom taxonomy from scratch
57. OMG somebody stop him!
59. The important bits: name post_types hierarchical
60. Relax! There are tools to generate this code: "Generate WP" http://generatewp.com
62. There are plugins with a UI "GD Custom Post Types and Taxonomies Tools" https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-taxonomies-tools/
64. So, not so bad after all...
65. We may also need custom fields users and roles settings API plugin API
66. And of course the templates (or the theme) to show them
67. And now we have a modern, fully featured, extensible CMS
68. WordPress Blog engine => CMS => Application platform => (Mobile application platform) Next?
69. WordPress is a full featured web platform...
70. ... and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
72. WordPress Greek Community Facebook https://facebook.com/groups/WordPressGreekCommunity/ Twitter https://twitter.com/wordpressgrcomm/ Website http://www.wpgc.gr/ http://www.wpgreece.org/
73. Thanks for listening!
74. Questions?
75. Takis Bouyouris, Nevma takis@nevma.gr https://www.facebook.com/takis.bouyouris https://www.linkedin.com/in/takisbouyouris Sorry and thank you SNL :-)