WordCamp UK 2009 presentation

Saturday, 18 July 2009

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Saturday, 18 July 2009

MYJOURNEYTOWORDPRESS

๏ Freelancegraphicdesigner• Over10yearsstudioexperience• Mixedmediabackground

๏ BeganresearchingCMS• Developmentpla<ormforthefuture• Post‐Nuke,Joomla,Drupal

๏ 2005Launchedphotoshopninja.comblog• FirstexposuretoWordPressatv1.4• WordPress1.5‐pagesintroduced

Saturday, 18 July 2009

WHYWORDPRESSISIDEALFORWEBSITES...NOTJUSTBLOGS!

๏ Easeofcustomisa-on• Templatesystem• Pluginarchitecture

๏ Contentmanagementfacili-es• Taxonomy(improvedinv2.8)• Usermanagement• Adminarea

๏ Developmentcycle/security• Regularupdatecycle• Easytoupdate• Securityrecord

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Saturday, 18 July 2009

PITFALLSOFWEBDEVELOPMENT

PROJECTS

Saturday, 18 July 2009

AVOIDPITFALLS

๏ Projectbudget

๏ Clientexpecta-ons

๏ Firmproposal

๏ Contentgenera-on

๏ Scopecreep

Saturday, 18 July 2009

THEWEBDEVELOPMENTPROCESSSTEP1PlanningandProposals

Saturday, 18 July 2009

1.1INITIALENQUIRY&RESEARCH

๏ Research• Clientsmarket• HosUngarrangements

๏ Consulta-on• Audience• Purpose• Tastes• FuncUonality

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1.2PROPOSALDEVELOPMENT

๏ Proposaldevelopment• NavigaUon/structure• FuncUonalityoutline• Accessibilitylevel

๏ Proposalrefinementwithclient• Audience• Purpose• FuncUonality

๏ Responsibili-es

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CLIENTSIGN‐OFFOFPROPOSAL

Saturday, 18 July 2009

THEWEBDEVELOPMENTPROCESSSTEP2

Crea-veDesignanddevelopment

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2.1CREATIVEDESIGN

๏ Ra-onalisenaviga-on• Toplevel• Secondarylevel• Focusareas• Posts/pages/tags

๏ Crea-vedesign• Photoshop/Illustrator• Homepageandcontentpage

๏ Func-onality• Plugins• Development

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CLIENTSIGN‐OFFOFCREATIVE

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2.2XHTML/CSSCODING

๏ BuildXHTML/CSS• BlueprintCSS• CSSEdit/StyleMaster

๏ Tes-ng,tes-ngandmoretes-ng!• Macwebdevelopment• Onlineresources• IETester• Firefoxadd‐ons

๏ Func-onality• Plugins• Development

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CLIENTSIGN‐OFFOFTESTBEDSITE

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2.3CONVERTINGTHECREATIVEINTOAWORDPRESSTHEME

๏ TheTestbedenvironment

๏WordPressStructure• Specialcategories• Customtaxonomy

๏ BuildWordPresstheme• Templatetags• PluginintegraUon• include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/myfile.php');• query_posts()• WP_Query()

Saturday, 18 July 2009

CODEEXAMPLEFORMINILOOP

<?php $mycontent = new WP_Query();$mycontent->query('tag=moo&showposts=4&orderby=date&$order=DEC');

while($mycontent->have_posts()) : $mycontent->the_post();?> <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="View <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php endwhile; ?>

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Saturday, 18 July 2009

GETTINGYOURTEMPLATESUNDERCONTROL

๏ h^p://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy• Understandthe‘cascade’‐egcategorydisplay1. category‐x.php2. category.php3. archive.php4. index.php

๏ Pagetemplates

๏ Condi-onalloca-ontests

๏ Specialcategories

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2.4FINALWORDPRESSBUILDPHASE

๏ Plugins• Writecustomplugins• Don’tre‐inventthewheel!• Integrateintotheme• CSSmodificaUons

๏ Tes-ng

๏ Training

๏ Finalcontentintegra-on

Saturday, 18 July 2009

ESSENTIALPLUGINS

๏MaintenanceMode

๏ RoleManager

๏WP‐CMSPostControl

๏WP‐DBManagerplugin

๏ GoogleXMLSitemaps

๏ Cforms

๏ Akismet

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CLIENTSIGN‐OFFOFWORDPRESSPRIVATESITE

Saturday, 18 July 2009

THEWEBDEVELOPMENTPROCESSSTEP3

Go‐live

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3.1GO‐LIVE

๏ Enablewebsite• Privacy• Maintenancemode• RSSfeeds/Feedburner• GoogleAnalyUcs• XMLSitemap

๏ Back‐up!• wp‐contentfolder• Database

๏ Beginmarke-ng

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3.2FIRSTMONTHREVIEW

๏ XMLsitemaps

๏ Checkbackups

๏ Searchengineindexing

๏ GoogleAnaly-cs

๏ CheckclientusingWordPressfunc-onality

๏ Finalsnagcatching

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3.3FIRSTQUARTERREVIEW

๏ Searchengineindexing

๏ Checkcontent/formacng

๏ Developon‐goingcontentplan/schedule

๏ Telltheworld!

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3.4ONGOING

๏Marke-ng

๏ GoogleAnaly-cs

๏ Improvements

๏ UpdateWordPress

Saturday, 18 July 2009

JonnyaFreelanceCrea-vewww.jonnya.net

WORDPRESSCMSBASEDWEBSITEDEVELOPMENTFROMSTARTTOFINISH

Saturday, 18 July 2009

Saturday, 18 July 2009