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App-ifiying WordPress: Practical Tips for Using WordPress as an Application Platform
This document provides tips for using WordPress as an application platform. It discusses how WordPress can be used to build apps rather than just websites by focusing on tasks over content. It outlines tools in WordPress like custom post types, taxonomies, and metaboxes that allow building apps. It also discusses challenges like APIs that could be improved and issues with customizing the media uploader. The document advises considering themes vs plugins, organizing code, securing the app, testing, and preparing for maintenance and scaling. It highlights upcoming features like the JSON REST API and front-end editor that will further WordPress' capabilities as an app platform.
App-ifiying WordPress: Practical Tips for Using WordPress as an Application Platform
- 1. App-ifying WordPress: Practical Tipsfor Using WordPress as an Application Platform by Mandi Wise for WordCamp Vancouver 2014
- 2. WP as anAP WTF?
- 3. From The Stateof the Word 2013
- 4. From The Stateof the Word 2013
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- 6. Tasks vs. Content PhotoCredit: JD Hancock
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- 8. Creation vs. Consumption PhotoCredit: JD Hancock
- 9. Many of uslikely live here App Site
- 10. What Makes anApp?
- 11. Multi-Tier Architecture Presentation Tier ApplicationTier Database Tier
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- 13. Why WordPress? Already knownand loved. Much of the work has been done for you. Plenty of documentation and examples.
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- 15. –Dr. Ian Malcolm “Yourscientists were so preoccupied with whether they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
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- 17. PressBooks Turn WP Multisiteinto a self-hosted writing/publishing app by installing the PressBooks theme.
- 19. Happytables Create, host, andmanage a website for your restaurant using the Happytables website builder.
- 22. Quartz Backbone.js business upfront, WordPress party in the back.
- 24. DMA Friends An appbuilt with BadgeOS and a WordPress- powered back-end to increase audience engagement at the Dallas Museum of Art.
- 26. AppPresser A plugin forcreating native mobile apps by integrating PhoneGap with WordPress.
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- 30. Custom Post Types Theworld is your custom post type oyster. Remember all the $args!
- 31. Custom Taxonomies A powerfulway to filter, sort and connect your post types and their posts.
- 32. Metaboxes & Settings Almostinevitable you’ll end up using these… Check out Custom Metaboxes and Fields on Github.
- 33. User Roles, Caps& Meta Key to customizing and controlling user permissions in your app.
- 34. Admin Themes The WordPressadmin area doesn’t have to look like WordPress anymore.
- 35. The Dashboard There’s agood chance you won’t want the default dashboard widgets in your app.
- 36. Templating Drag and dropyour way to templated bliss… maybe.
- 37. Don’t Forget! Multisite BuddyPress And allof these other things…
- 38. HeartBeat API wp_mail, wp_Cron& wp_ajax Custom Database Tables Posts 2 Posts Gravity Forms eCommerce Plugins Membership Plugins (…You Get the Point)
- 39. That all soundsgreat, but what’s still missing?
- 40. Some APIs aren’tas user-friendly as they could be. I’m looking at you, Settings API. Custom post statuses are only half-way there. Customizing the 3.5+ media uploader can be tricky if you don’t have some Backbone chops. Very real real-time limitations. Some things don’t like to be messed with.
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- 43. Get Organized Photo Credit:Pietro Bellini
- 44. Protect Your Users PhotoCredit: JD Hancock Take privacy protection seriously. Look for easy backdoors. SSL where it’s needed. It’s 10pm. Do you know where your servers are?
- 45. Protect Yourself(Because unlikethese guys, you don’t have a time machine.) Malware and brute force attacks. Custom database prefixes. Data validation, sanitization, and escaping. Use nonces. Prepare and escape your custom SQL queries. Make back-ups. Then back-up your back-ups.
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- 47. Will it scale? Hostingthat can grow with you. Caching and transients. LEMP (nginx) vs. typical LAMP stack. Minify scripts and styles, optimize images. Localize your text strings for translation.
- 48. Extending & Maintaining Borrowedfrom xkcd.com
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- 50. JSON REST API Pickyour flavour: Jetpack or WP API (in 4.1 core)
- 51. JavaScript, Javascript, Javascript TheMedia Uploader was only the beginning…
- 52. More and MoreFront-End Development of a front-end editor for core is well-underway at make.wordpress.org.
- 53. Metadata UI API? Stillvery alpha, but exciting to stalk on make.wordpress.org and Github!
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- 55. Thanks On Twitter andGithub: @mandiwise