WordPress. 



WebNow, Beograd, 2014


Milan Ivanović
@lanche86
lanche86.com

Razor Communications


Frontend Team Lead

WordPress
Ruby on Rails
Django Templating

WP Valet



WordPress Developer

Custom Themes
Custom Plugins
Tweaks and Fixes



WP Serbia



wpserbia.rs
@WPSerbia
meetup.com/WordPress-Serbia
WordPress Srbija Facebook

WP Serbia



Cilj organizovanja zajednice: WordCamp Serbia

4. WordPress Meetup Serbia



24. jun 2014
18.00h, Mikser House


PRIJAVITE SE!

WordPress.com or WordPress.org 


The difference.

WordPress.com



Focus on your beautiful content, and let them handle the rest.

WordPress.com



Premium hosting, security, and backups are included. 

You can upgrade to a custom domain, 
like YourAwesomeDomain.com

WordPress.com



Choose from hundreds of beautiful themes. 

Make it your own with Custom Design.

WordPress.com



Integrate your site with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social networks.

WordPress.com



Popular features like sharing, stats, comments, and polls are included. 
There’s no need to install plugins.

WordPress.com



Personal support and the WordPress.com forums are always available.

WordPress.com



You must register for an account on WordPress.com and abide by our Terms of Service.



http://wordpress.org/about/

“Start a blog or build a full-fledged website. The only limit is your imagination.”

WordPress.org



Get your hands dirty, and host your website yourself.

WordPress.org



You’ll need to find a host, and perform backups and maintenance yourself.

WordPress.org



Install custom themes. Build your own with PHP and CSS.

WordPress.org



Install a plugin, like Jetpack, to enable sharing functionality on your site.

WordPress.org



Install plugins to extend your site’s functionality.

WordPress.org



Visit the WordPress.org support forums for assistance.

WordPress.org



No registration with WordPress.org is required.

WordPress



WordPress is a community-driven project that’s developed by and for people like you.

Coding Guidelines



Follow the official coding guidelines. Always!


PHP Coding Standards
HTML Coding Standards
CSS Coding Standards
JavaScript Coding Standards

Theme vs Plugin



The customer should be able to switch themes at any point without losing neither content nor functionality. 
@bjornjohansen

Suit Up Your Hosting Plan!

Do not be a cheapskate and go for the cheapest option.



GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization
Pingdom Website Speed Test
PageSpeed Insights 

Get WP.com Hosting

Invest in Your business!



Buy / donate plugins that will save Your time.
Invest in the things that will make Your life easier

Use a Fast WordPress Theme


Selecting the Perfect Theme for WordPress



  • Pick a Theme that Relates to Your Industry
  • Strive for simplicity!
  • Functionality!
  • Check for Browser Compatibility! Browsershots.org!
  • Try to find Free Theme, first!

Installing a Theme



  • Download a Theme / Upload a Theme
  • Activate it!
  • Import sample data (if you must & if there’s any)
  • DELETE UNNECESSARY
    • pages
    • posts
    • comments
    • CRAP

Take care of your Plugins!



DOES IT KILL YOUR SPEED?


No. Number of installed plugins are not killing the speed on your website. Bad plugins does.

Take care of your Plugins! #2



DELETE UNNECESSARY PLUGINS, LIKE, REALLY! 

Don’t just deactivate them.

Take care of your Plugins! #3



Go to wordpress.org and Favourite (Bookmark) plugins that you like.

Take care of your Plugins! #4



Highly recommended plugin to use is P3 Profiler.

The most effective way of seeing what plugins are slowing down your website.

Why use plugins?



  • To modify, enhance and customise your WordPress website!
  • Add functionality without editing the core!
  • 30,847 plugins, 651.284.858 downloads… and counting

Optimize Your Images for the Web



Photoshop, “Save for Web” option.
A good plugin to optimize images: WP Smush.it
Stripping meta data from JPEGs, optimizing JPEG compression…


Downloads: 854,626

Optimize Your Images for the Web #2



Way better plugin to optimize images: EWWW Image Optimizer
Nearly any image in WordPress can be optimized.


Downloads: 305,503

Optimize Your Images for the Web #3



Jetpack by WordPress.com

Supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.


Downloads: 10,516,954

Optimize Your Website



Lazy Load by Bjørn Johansen (@bjornjohansen)

Lazy loading makes your site load faster and saves bandwidth.
Uses jQuery and degrades gracefully for non-js users.

Works with both images and iframes.


Downloads: 88,656

Social Media Buttons & Widgets



Official sharing buttons, due to calls they make to external services can increase loading times immensely.

Change to text links or locally stored social media images, and reduce your page size by up to one megabyte. 

Minify and Combine CSS and Javascript files



Decrease number of requests with Minit.

All CSS files combined in a single file.

All external Javascript files loading asynchronously.

Full page caching with 

W3 Total Cache



W3 Total Cache is probably the best caching plugin out there.

Tons of features, easy to setup, recommended.


Downloads: 3,409,859

WordPress SEO by Yoast



Improve your WordPress SEO: 
Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using 
WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast


Downloads: 10,028,399

Contact Form 7



Just another contact form plugin. 

Simple but flexible.

Contact Form 7


Downloads: 17,027,934

Gravity Forms



Advanced Forms for WordPress Websites Just Don't Get 
Any Easier than Gravity Forms

Add-ons is a must-try.



Tailor the admin to your 

client’s needs



If your client only needs to update pages, make sure that is everything they see in the backend. 

Noel Tock has a great presentation on that subject

Pitanja?



@lanche86
lanche86.com


Vidimo se!
4. WordPress Meetup Serbia
Utorak, 24. jun 2014, 18:00
Mikser House, Beograd

PRIJAVITE SE!

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