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Demystifying WordPress
The document provides insights on using WordPress for professional web design and maintenance, covering aspects such as themes, plugins, and customization techniques. It emphasizes the importance of checking plugin compatibility and recent updates while offering case studies for practical applications. Additionally, it highlights the distinction between .com and .org versions of WordPress to guide users in selecting the best option for their needs.
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Demystifying WordPress
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- 5. • You wantto learn tips, tricks and techniques on how WordPress can become a viable opportunity for to provide professional web design and maintenance services to your clients • You want to learn more about premium and free themes, plugins and other resources to help jump- start your next project
- 6. • You wantto customize WordPress themes with ease • You want to learn ways to prevent headaches and heart-attacks when deploying a WordPress site • You have great taste in session choice
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- 8. History • First releasedon May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg • Grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. - wordpress.org
- 9. Stats • WordPress isused by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites • Powers 22% of all new websites (As of 8/11) • Wordpress is the most popular CMS on the internet • Version 3.0 has been downloaded over 32.5 million times (As of 2/11) - Wikipedia
- 10. Why WordPress? •Open Source • Full Standards Compliance • Free • Flexible • Awesome
- 11. .com vs .org .com+ .com - • Free • Can’t run custom themes • Easy to setup • Everything is taken • Can’t hack PHP code care of: setup, • Can’t upload plugins upgrades, spam, backups, security, etc.
- 12. .com vs .org .org(a.k.a hosted install) • Can upload themes • Can upload plugins • Complete control to change code • Need to pay for web host
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- 14. WP Free ThemesDirectory • Not very helpful • Hard to determine quality
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- 16. Anatomy of a Great Theme • Customizable - can add your own logo, color scheme, change layout, etc. • Flexible - can handle a variety of different post types • Adaptable - can grow with your needs • Ongoing support and upgrades
- 26. Blank Themes • Thematic http://themeshaper.com/thematic/ • WP Framework http://wpframework.com • Whiteboard – A Lightweight WordPress Framework http://whiteboardframework.com/
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- 31. However... Recent investigation ofthe current state of the WordPress plugin repository found: • More than half of the plugins in the repository are not compatible with WordPress 3.x. • Only 32% of those 15,000+ plugins have been updated in 2011! - wpmu.org
- 32. The Times TheyAre A-Changin' Plugins not been updated in past two years will be hidden both in the repository and in the WP admin plugin search. - Announced by Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp San Francisco in August 2011
- 33. Do your homework •Check compatibility, when last updated • Average rating, others’ comments/issues
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- 44. • Why? Addedfunctionality, can use widgets • How? 1. functions.php <?php if ( function_exists ('register_sidebar')) { register_sidebar ('custom'); } ?> 2. Copy sidebar.php (sidebar2.php) 3. Call where needed <?php include ('sidebar-cat.php'); ?>
- 47. Other Options • VisualComposer for WordPress (paid) • Magic Fields Plugin (free)
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- 85. Web Fonts/@fontface Allowsyou to use virtually any font as a true text element. No longer limited by traditional browser-safe fonts (Arial, Verdana, Times, etc.)
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- 87. @fontface @font-face { font-family: 'Colaborate'; src: url('http://kernest.com/embed/colaborate-regular'), url('http://kernest.com/embed/colaborate- regular#colabreg') format('svg'); } #content h1 { color: #000; font-family: 'Colaborate', Geneva, 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:32px; }
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