Tag: Wordpress
Why WordPress Is Best For Business (Part 1 of 3)
thewebtrainer.com This is part one of three of a little talk I gave about why I think WordPress is the best solution for most small businesses. I was presenting at WordCamp Kansas City 2011 in Overland Park , KS. What a awesome event! Everything from the organizing to the speakers and yes, even the food was top notch!!
Developing Themes For WordPress: Part 1
Since I finished the Drupal series a while ago, I’ve often receive requests to do similar coverage about WordPress. Only now do I feel in a position to do so because I have a real project (the redesign of my personal website) upon which to base it on. Over the next nine weeks, I’ll demonstrate the full process of designing a theme that spans more than eight hours of edited video. During that time, you’ll see me writing code, use online resources and troubleshoot through my own mistakes. In the first part, I set the scene as we create the basic files, talk about reference materials we will use as well as writing some WordPress specific code. Websites mentioned: www.tom-rogers.com – Subject of series (where final theme is live) codex.wordpress.org – Details on key functions digwp.com – Basic theme used for reference
Migrating A Massive Legacy CMS To WordPress Without Losing Your Mind
This video was originally recorded in March 2011. Hey Honey, the server’s down again! That’s the phrase I hear all too often, because our home-grown ZENPRESS CMS (which I’ve been building since 1997) lives on top of an older engine that simply can’t handle a 13 years worth of data. Last year, I decided to move to a more future-proof system. Because ZENPRESS has 53238 articles encoded with our own custom editorial markup language and a boatload of custom features, I’ve been writing a Web framework and a series of plug-ins that move our custom ZENPRESS CMS feature stack into WordPress. This presentation is the story of the first programming year of that migration, why I chose WordPress, some of the design principles that were set out, tricks and lessons I’ve learned, a tour of some of the cool plug-ins I’ve developed so far, and tips and hints for anyone else who might want to try migrating a large, custom system while still retaining some shred of sanity. Special thanks to Mason James at WPMU Dev for filming this video.