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Taking WordPress Outside of WordPress

Taking WordPress Outside of WordPress

WordPress is an incredibly powerful CMS on its own, but the possibilities explode even further once you start taking it out and letting it socialize with other platforms. This talk covers ways to integrate WordPress with other systems and platforms, touching on everything from plugins to RSS to using APIs to pull information from other platforms (such as Shopify) into WordPress, and to push it from WordPress elsewhere.

Zoe Rooney

June 13, 2015
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  1. PROS CONS quick & easy potential for conflicts someone else

    updates/ maintains nobody updates/ maintains limited by plugin
  2. PROS CONS easier than API* depends on Google code pulls

    in latest data limits to organizing/ selecting data pulls in a variety of data limited by feed contents *maybe
  3. PROS CONS pulls in a variety of data more coding

    all the data limited by API pull and push
  4. Third Party API (IN) 1. Displaying a social media feed

    2. Displaying Shopify products with click to buy More on this at 3:20!
  5. WordPress API (IN & OUT) 1. Pulling data to other

    platforms
 2. WP foundation for JS site
 3. Apps to manage WP from elsewhere Video @ bit.ly/api-theme