WordCamp Kyiv

Change your theme, but, keep your business

We Are Creatures of Habit

First off, we are creatures.

We have needs

We need to eat, and so we eat.

We like to chat with one another

...and so we do

We take turns and finish our conversations gracefully.

The list goes on...

How on Earth do we get all of this done?

That's where habits come in.

Habits help us through our day.

This, habbit thing...

Goes for IT, as well

People Resist Change

Remember the left floated websites?

I used to love those!

You can laugh now, but it was cool!

March 2015

Head-hunted by Devana

Customer Happiness Engineer

WPSerbia involvement

ManageWP

Ultimate Dashboard

Running on WordPress

One Theme

Theme v5

Hundreds of thousands of customers

Thousands of paying customers

Orion was in development stage

Orion Beta

Income = MWP1

Growth + Design + Milan

Brainstorm room

Whiteboard

Writing down ideas

Growth team

Vision!

...supported by numbers!

Design team

Re-brand everything

...as smooth as possible

Milan

Analyze v5

Deep-scan the code

Decision

Rewrite everything.

Middle-step

One change at a time

01.01.2016

Joined dev team

All Web assets

Website.

Theme v6

Growth team

Give up on unnecessary things.

!important

To be prepared is half the victory.

Sitemap

Design team

Website workflow

Heavily based on Sage

@rootswp

Production

Staging environment

• Highly recommended

• Everyone can track the process

• It's a must these days.

Replica of the current website

Real content

!important

Inline styling within post content

Images issues

Overall experience

Deployment

July 12th, 2016

Update staging environment with the latest content

Prepare everything

New plugins needed?

Test your deployment procedure

Write down steps

Do not skip steps

No coding on the deployment day

Get some rest, if possible, of course

Once the deployment starts

Make yourself comfortable

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst

Takeaways:

• Plan everything!

• Hope for the best!

• Shut up & hit Activate :)

managewp.com

$20 coupon

#WCKYIV

Milan Ivanovic

@lanche86