WordPress.
Open Education, Belgrade, 2014
Milan Ivanović
Razor Communications
Frontend Team Lead
WordPress
Ruby on Rails
Django Templating
WP Serbia
WP Serbia
Cilj organizovanja zajednice: WordCamp Serbia
4. WordPress Meetups Serbia
(so far)
Next one, in September
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 their Terms of Service.
WordPress.com
Down side: yourdomain.wordpress.com
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!
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.
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
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Pick a Theme that Relates to Your Industry
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Strive for simplicity!
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Functionality!
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Check for Browser Compatibility! Browsershots.org!
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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)
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.
Why use plugins?
- To modify, enhance and customise your WordPress website!
- Add functionality without editing the core!
- 32,276 plugins, 696,091,051 downloads… and counting
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.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
Improve your WordPress SEO:
Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using
Downloads: 10,028,399
Gravity Forms
Advanced Forms for WordPress Websites Just Don't Get
Any Easier than Gravity Forms
Add-ons is a must-try.
Gravity Forms
Visual Form Editor
Building simple and complex forms alike is a piece of cake with the easy to use form editor.
Gravity Forms
Multi-Page Forms
Make long forms easier to use by breaking them
up into multiple pages, complete with progress bar.
Gravity Forms
Form Settings
Easily configure the title, description, settings
and confirmation message using the form settings.
Gravity Forms
Limit Entries
Easily limit how many entries a form will accept and
display a custom message when that limit is reached.
Gravity Forms
Schedule Forms
Set a start and end date to limit form access and
display a custom message when the form has expired.
Gravity Forms
Quiz
Quiz Add-On allows you to quickly create Quizzes that are automatically graded or scored when the form is submitted.
Gravity Forms
Quiz
Seamless Integration, Easy to Use, Custom Grading...
Gravity Forms
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Gravity Forms
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Gravity Forms
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Gravity Forms
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