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Saturday, 18 July 2009
JonnyaFreelanceCrea-vewww.jonnya.net
WORDPRESSCMSBASEDWEBSITEDEVELOPMENTFROMSTARTTOFINISH
Saturday, 18 July 2009
MYJOURNEYTOWORDPRESS
๏ Freelancegraphicdesigner• Over10yearsstudioexperience• Mixedmediabackground
๏ BeganresearchingCMS• Developmentpla<ormforthefuture• Post‐Nuke,Joomla,Drupal
๏ 2005Launchedphotoshopninja.comblog• FirstexposuretoWordPressatv1.4• WordPress1.5‐pagesintroduced
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WHYWORDPRESSISIDEALFORWEBSITES...NOTJUSTBLOGS!
๏ Easeofcustomisa-on• Templatesystem• Pluginarchitecture
๏ Contentmanagementfacili-es• Taxonomy(improvedinv2.8)• Usermanagement• Adminarea
๏ Developmentcycle/security• Regularupdatecycle• Easytoupdate• Securityrecord
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PITFALLSOFWEBDEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS
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AVOIDPITFALLS
๏ Projectbudget
๏ Clientexpecta-ons
๏ Firmproposal
๏ Contentgenera-on
๏ Scopecreep
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THEWEBDEVELOPMENTPROCESSSTEP1PlanningandProposals
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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
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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()
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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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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
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ESSENTIALPLUGINS
๏MaintenanceMode
๏ RoleManager
๏WP‐CMSPostControl
๏WP‐DBManagerplugin
๏ GoogleXMLSitemaps
๏ Cforms
๏ Akismet
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CLIENTSIGN‐OFFOFWORDPRESSPRIVATESITE
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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
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WORDPRESSCMSBASEDWEBSITEDEVELOPMENTFROMSTARTTOFINISH
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