WordPress DK made a presentation at DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2009 in order to show the Drupals what a proper userfriendly kinda-CMS looks like.

1. DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2009
by
Lisa Risager, Morten Høybye Frederiksen,
Jesper Laugesen&René Clausen Nielsen
CreativeCommonsAttribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Denmark

2. Agenda
1. About WordPress
2. WordPress Stats
3. Why so popular?
4. Developing WordPress
5. More than a blog
6. WordPress Cases
7. Questions
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3. 1. About WordPress
A little history
• Started in 2003
• Successor of b2/cafelog
• Focus on web standards
• WordPress 1.0 was out in January, 2004
• Themes introduced in 2005
• WordPress.com (hosted blogs) in 2005
• First WordCamp in 2006
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4. 1. About WordPress
Where to find stuff
• Self-install: wordpress.org
• Hosted: wordpress.com
• Danish community: wordpress.dk
• Documentation: codex.wordpress.org
• Support: wordpress.org/support/
• Development: trac.wordpress.org
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5. 1. About WordPress
Requirements
• PHP version 4.3 orgreater
• MySQL version 4.0 orgreater
• 5 minutes
• Yes, 5 minutes!
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6. 2. WordPress Stats
Download history
• 2005: 900,000 downloads
• 2006: 1,545,703 downloads
• 2007: 3,816,965 downloads
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7. 2. WordPress Stats
WordPress 2.7 has been downloaded
5,518,284
times
(And it was only released on December 10, 2008)
As of May 24, 2009
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8. 2. WordPress Stats
On WordPress.org you’ll find
• 4,245 plugins, 22,152,788 downloads, all
GPL.
• 791 themes, 4,938,397 downloads, all
Open Source.
• 2,617 ideas, 56,802 votes, and counting.
As of May 24, 2009
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9. 3. Why so Popular?
• Ease of use for developers
• Ease of use for webmasters
• Ease of use for web editors
• Ease of use for end users
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10. 3. Why so Popular?
• Vocabulary:
Dashboard, blog, post, page, comments, s
ettings, appearance, plugins, widgets, med
ia, users
• …and so on
• It is NOT primarily a framework, but an
out-of-the-boxbloggingtool!
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11. 3. Why so Popular?
• Made for writers – just add words!
• Lets you focus on content, not technology
• Taxonomy on the go
• Easy editing
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12. 3. Why so Popular?
• Made by designers
• Preview
• Web standards
• Focus on usability and user-testing
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13. 3. Why so Popular?
Basically:
• It’s sooooo, like, pretty. You
know, like, beautiful!
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14. 3. Why so Popular?
Dead simple (and blisteringly quick) setup – as presented in the unfortunately rather poor video
at http://wordpress.23video.com/video/466604/screencast-for-drupalcamp:
00:00-01:10 Installation
01:10-01:52 Password change
01:52-03:52 Theme change
03:52-06:27 Settings changes
06:27-07:51 Editing a post (editing title, content, category, tags and a custom field)
07:51-08:32 Editing post permalink
08:32-09:07 Editing a comment
09:07-09:20 Collapsing admin menu
09:20-10:26 Installing and configuring OpenID support
10:26-11:11 Finding interesting plugins
11:11-12:25 Installing and configuring All in One SEO Pack
12:25-14:11 Installing and configuring Google XML Sitemaps
14:11-15:16 Configuring special theme options
15:16-16:00 Installing Lightbox 2
16:00-18:28 Writing a new post with an image and resizing text field
18:28-19:03 Changing shown author name
19:03-22:06 Arranging widgets
22:06-23:35 Rearranging and tweaking the dashboard
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15. 3. Why so Popular?
• Next level: make your own template
• Make your own plugin
• Use Custom Fields
• Integrate with
Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, iPhone& other
stuff
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16. 4. Developing WordPress
Easy Plugin Use & Development
plugin.php
Simple, but comprehensive, APIs:
• Template tags:
the_title(), the_permalink(), get_the_time(), the_time
(), get_bookmarks(), ...
• Actions: atom_head, wp_head, loop_start, ...
• Filters: comment_url, the_title, the_title_rss...
• Functionoverride: wp_mail(), get_userdata(), …
• Helperfunctions: is_404(), is_search(), ...
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17. 4. Developing WordPress
Themes& The Loop
index.php
<?phpget_header(); ?>
<?phpif ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) :
the_post(); ?>
<!-- HTML, PHP &template tags etc. -->
<?phpendwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php_e('Sorry, no posts matchedyourcriteria.'); ?></p>
<?phpendif; ?>
<?phpget_footer(); ?>
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18. 4. Developing WordPress
Theme development
style.css + index.php
• Functionaltemplates:
functions.php, 404.php, archive.php, page.ph
p, single.php, ...
• Multiple loops:
rewind_posts(), query_posts('category_name
=wp'), newWP_Query('tag=drupal&order=AS
C')
• Configuration: add_theme_page()
• Parent-childthemes: TEMPLATE: sandbox 18

19. 5. More than a blog
Go all the way!
• Podcasting
• VideoPress
• bbPress
• WordPress MU
• BuddyPress
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20. 5. More than a blog

21. 5. More than a blog

22. 6. WordPress Cases
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23. 6. WordPress Cases
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24. 6. WordPress Cases
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25. 6. WordPress Cases
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26. 6. WordPress Cases
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27. 6. WordPress Cases
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28. 6. WordPress Cases
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29. 6. WordPress Cases
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30. 6. WordPress Cases
Se more cases at WordPress Showcase
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31. 7. Questions?
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