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.

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1. Taking WordPress Outside of WordPress WordCamp Philly 2015 Zoe Rooney @zoe_rooney
7. PLUGINS RSS APIs
8. PLUGINS RSS APIs
10. PROS CONS quick & easy potential for conflicts someone else updates/ maintains nobody updates/ maintains limited by plugin
12. PLUGINS RSS APIs
13. Tutorial @ bit.ly/pinterest-rss
14. Tutorial @ bit.ly/pinterest-rss
15. 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
17. PLUGINS RSS APIs
19. PROS CONS pulls in a variety of data more coding all the data limited by API pull and push
20. APIs ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
21. Third Party API (IN) 1. Displaying a social media feed 2. Displaying Shopify products with click to buy More on this at 3:20!
22. 1. Displaying a social media feed Tutorial @ bit.ly/wp-instagram
23. 2. Displaying Shopify products with click to buy Tutorial @ bit.ly/shopify-api
24. 2. Displaying Shopify products with click to buy Tutorial @ bit.ly/shopify-api
25. 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
26. 1. Pulling data to other platforms DATA ACCESS http://bit.ly/wp-api-plugin http://wp-api.org/
27. 1. Pulling data to other platforms DATA STRUCTURE https://www.getpostman.com/
28. 1. Pulling data to other platforms DATA STRUCTURE http://wp-api.org/ GET request
31. Slides @ http://bit.ly/take-wp-out