1. WordPress as a Platform Bangalore PHP Meetup – 30-Jan-2010 Sudar Muthu Research Engineer, Yahoo Labs http://sudarmuthu.com Twitter: @sudarmuthu

2. Types of Application Two Types As a WordPress theme or a Plugin As a Standalone Application (BackPress)

3. As a Theme or Plugin Extends WordPress (needs it to run) Doesnt involve modifying the core (mostly) Uses the Plugin API Not necessarily a CMS application

4. As a Theme or a Plugin – Some Examples Invoice Application – WP Invoice (http://twincitiestech.com/services/wp-invoice/)http://twincitiestech.com/services/wp-invoice/ Contact Management – RoloPress (http://rolopress.com)http://rolopress.com Job board – RecruitPress (http://recruitpress.com/)http://recruitpress.com/ Social Networking site – BuddyPress (http://buddypress.org)http://buddypress.org

5. Standalone Application - BackPress Official Definition at http://backpress.orghttp://backpress.org BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It grew out of the immensely popular WordPress project, and is also the core of the bbPress and GlotPress sister-projects. WordPressbbPressGlotPress

6. BackPress - Features User role management Complete Plugin API XML-RPC Server and Client Object Caching Database Abstraction Pseudo-cron functionality Full HTTP library KSES: Full security filtering for HTML content

7. It is advantageous when… You are comfortable in WordPress The server configuration is not known Need to provide backward compatibility to PHP 4 Application is not overly complex Quick Prototype You can consider code as documentation ;-)

8. It is not so advantageous when You are pretty new to WordPress The application is pretty complex Your application is going to be only on PHP 5+ Need to support multiple database types Need to run lot of background processes.

9. Thank you Sudar Muthu Research Engineer, Yahoo Labs http://sudarmuthu.com Twitter: @sudarmuthu