2. WORDPRESS CMS
BASED WEBSITE
DEVELOPMENT
FROM START TO FINISH
Jonnya Freelance Crea-ve
www.jonnya.net
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3. MY JOURNEY TO WORDPRESS
๏ Freelance graphic designer
• Over 10 years studio experience
• Mixed media background
๏ Began researching CMS
• Development pla<orm for the future
• Post‐Nuke, Joomla, Drupal
๏ 2005 Launched photoshopninja.com blog
• First exposure to WordPress at v1.4
• WordPress 1.5 ‐ pages introduced
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4. WHY WORDPRESS IS IDEAL FOR
WEBSITES... NOT JUST BLOGS!
๏ Ease of customisa-on
• Template system
• Plugin architecture
๏ Content management facili-es
• Taxonomy (improved in v2.8)
• User management
• Admin area
๏ Development cycle/security
• Regular update cycle
• Easy to update
• Security record
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5. Search WordPress.org Go
ome About Extend Docs Blog Forums Hosting Download
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus
on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both
free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your
blogging software, not fight it.
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get a free blog on WordPress.com.
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6. PITFALLS OF
WEB DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS
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22. 2.4 FINAL WORDPRESS BUILD PHASE
๏ Plugins
• Write custom plugins
• Don’t re‐invent the wheel!
• Integrate into theme
• CSS modificaUons
๏ Tes-ng
๏ Training
๏ Final content integra-on
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23. ESSENTIAL PLUGINS
๏ Maintenance Mode
๏ Role Manager
๏ WP‐CMS Post Control
๏ WP‐DBManager plugin
๏ Google XML Sitemaps
๏ Cforms
๏ Akismet
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