A presentation at WordCamp Montreal on how we (Praized) use WordPress as a Web Framework for some of our clients and projects.

1. Using WordPress as a Web Framework (ceci n'est pas un blogue) Sylvain Carle of Praized Media WordCamp Montréal 2009

3. Been blogging for almost 10 years

4. Been doing internet startups for 15 years

8. Three blogger co-founders (2 natives, one natural born)

9. Got 1Mil+ funding from Garage Technology Canada (now CSL)

10. Based in Montreal with plans for World Domination ;-)

12. Propose a model based on users, not merchants

13. Enterprisey Technology Stack

14. Opportunity for Social Software for Local Search

16. Been thinking about platform for a long time

17. Figured out that successful platforms are built on top of successful platforms

18. Figured out that WordPress was an incredibly successful platform and would continue to grow tremendously

20. Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) for servers

21. Hosted at Amazon EC2 + Liquid Web

22. Ruby On Rails for platform / API

23. MySQL + Sphinx for search

24. WordPress and PHP for distributed views

25. jQuery + CSS framework

26. TRAC for subversion + tickets + wiki

28. Open Source core libs wrapped for WP

29. Works with WP, WP-MU, BuddyPress (and soon BBPress)

30. Free hosting for local blogs with WP on praized.net

31. blogs.praized.com (praized planet) is where most of our PR/Marketing efforts

33. Found local talent on WP-Hackers Mailing List (Hi Steph!)

34. Did initial release for MT and WP but WP has 95% usage on our network

36. Both these are now much easier with the new WP API for pretty much anything

37. Backpress is the project to look for even more

38. Future is probably “packaging” plugins+themes for specific applications on top of WordPress

40. PHP classes to wrap all call in WP

41. OAuth and Microformats

42. 50 Mil+ call last month to api.praized.com

43. Open Source Licenses for most software

44. Working on Opening licenses for GeoData and places

47. International, all our software is i18n, all our target platform are, wordpress is by far the most succesful

48. We end up having wordpress installations that are not blogs at all, check out http://answers.yellowpages.ca for an example

49. ping me http://afrog.in/ + http://afroginthevalley.com/ http://blogs.praized.com/dev http://api-tribe.com/ Sandbox for developers @afrognthevalley @sylvaincarle on twitter @afroginthevalley on identi.ca http://code.google.com/p/praized/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/praized-community/ www.praized.com