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Transcript
FOSSCOM 2017 WordPress Information Architecture Takis Bouyouris WordPress Greek Community
Nevma.gr
Who am I? Takis Bouyouris Software Engineer/Web Developer Co-founder of
Nevma.gr WordPress Greek Community WordPress Athens Meetup WordCamp Athens
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall Sat. 09th December 2017 https://2017.athens.wordcamp.org/
WordPress
is an open source (GPL) Content Management System powers 28%
of websites today has a vibrant, global community and a vast ecosystem of extensions and services
It’s a CMS blog engine publishing tool web application platform
Technologies LAMP/LNMP PHP Apache, Nginx, etc MySQL HTML, CSS, Javascript
Information Architecture
Information Architecture is necessary a. for development b. for analysis
c. for communication
Information Architecture "Ontology is a formal naming and defnition of
the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities in a domain" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)
Ontologies have Classes Attributes Relations Individuals Restrictions Rules Events Functions
...
WordPress Information Architecture
WordPress Post types (Classes) Posts Pages Attachments
Posts
Posts (non hierarchical) the simplest information piece post-1 post-2 post-3
post-4 post-5 post-6 post-7 post-8 post-9
None
None
None
Pages
Pages (hierarchical) page-1 ├─page-1-1 ├─page-1-2 │ ├─page-1-2-1 │ └─page-1-2-2 └─page-1-3
page-2 ├─page-2-1 └─page-2-2 page-3
None
None
None
Attachments
None
Taxonomies
WordPress taxonomies (Relations) ways to categorise content categories tags
Categories (hierarchical) cat-1 ├─cat-1-1 │ ├─cat-1-1-1 │ ├─cat-1-1-2 │ └─cat-1-1-3
└─cat-1-2 cat-2 ├─cat-2-1 └─cat-2-2 cat-3
None
Tags (non hierarchical) tag-1 tag-2 tag-3 tag-4 tag-5 tag-6 tag-7
tag-8 tag-9 tag-10 tag-11 tag-11 tag-12 tag-13 tag-14
None
Examples
A simple company website pages == static content Home About
us Services Products How we work Contact
A simple company website posts == news
A news portal pages == static content About us Terms
Contact
A news portal posts == news categories == main categorisation
tags == secondary categorisation
Custom felds
WordPress custom felds (Attributes) custom felds ACF PODS Toolset/Types
None
None
None
None
Custom post types and taxonomies
WordPress can be extended with Custom post types (like custom
posts and pages) Custom taxonomies (like custom categories and tags)
None
None
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None
So!
WordPress has posts and pages they have custom felds they
are categorised by taxonomies can be extended with custom post types and custom taxonomies
What’s missing? Relationships one to one one to many many
to many Use plugins: ACF, Toolset/Types, PODS, etc
None
Examples
A not-so-simple company website pages == static content posts ==
news categories == main news categories tags == secondary news categories
A not-so-simple company website custom post types portfolio == projects
products == products custom taxonomies portfolio-categories == projects categories product-categories == products categories
Advantages: Easy to implement Separation of concerns Different design per
section Different admin section
UI components
UI components Sidebars Widgets Menus
None
None
Everything comes together with Plugins extend core functionality Themes are
responsible for what the users see (the front-end)
None
https://wphierarchy.com/
REST API
REST API for interoperating with other platforms is part of
the core since v4.7 https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall Sat. 09th December 2017 https://2017.athens.wordcamp.org/
WordPress Greek Community https://wpgreece.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/WordPressGreekCommunity/ https://twitter.com/wpgreeceorg/ https://www.meetup.com/Athens-WordPress-Meetup/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn2JrgFY9lHO85gGTAlfw0A/ https://speakerdeck.com/wpgr/ (or
just Google us)
Thank you!
[email protected]
http://takis.nevma.gr/ f @ takis.bouyouris t @ takisbig