WordPress.
WebNow, Beograd, 2014
Milan Ivanović
Razor Communications
Frontend Team Lead
WordPress
Ruby on Rails
Django Templating
WP Valet
WordPress Developer
Custom Themes
Custom Plugins
Tweaks and Fixes
WP Serbia
WP Serbia
Cilj organizovanja zajednice: WordCamp Serbia
4. WordPress Meetup Serbia
24. jun 2014
18.00h, Mikser House
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!
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)
- 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
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
Downloads: 10,028,399
Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin.
Simple but flexible.
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.
Pitanja?
Vidimo se!
4. WordPress Meetup Serbia
Utorak, 24. jun 2014, 18:00
Mikser House, Beograd
PRIJAVITE SE!
WebNow 2014
By Milan Ivanović
