1. Turning WordPress into a full-blown CMS -ALEX YOUNG

2. About me  Work at Punchline Advertising  Currently studying at UVU  3 years web development experience  1.5 years of WordPress experience  1.5 years of Husband experience  Favorite band is Queen  4 years of World of Warcraft experience

3. A brief history of WordPress (ONLY THE STUFF THAT MATTERS TO THIS PRESENTATION)

4. 2003 – WordPress was released

5. 2004 – v1.2 was released (plugins)

6. What are plugins?

7. 2005 – v1.5 was released (pages)

8. Page and Page Templates

9. 2010 – v3.0/3.1 were released (CPTs and Post Formats)

10. Making WordPress even more CMS(ier)er

11. For the newbies…

12. Plugins  Plugins can either be your best friend, or that one friend who is kind of annoying.  Can really make your site beautiful, useful, and functional.  Also can make your site clunky, slow, and fugly.  Gives you a lot more bang for your buck  Saves you a lot of time

13. Some great plugins for newbies  1. Jetpack - http://jetpack.me/http://jetpack.me/  2. Ultimate TinyMCE - http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/ Sadly, stopped working in 3.9. - http://wpeditpro.com/http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-tinymce/http://wpeditpro.com/  3. Column Shortcodes - http://wordpress.org/plugins/column- shortcodes/http://wordpress.org/plugins/column- shortcodes/  4. Contact Form 7 - http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/  5. WooCommerce - http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/

14. For the Developers

15. Some great plugins for developers Pods.io - http://pods.io/docs/learn/what-is-pods/http://pods.io/docs/learn/what-is-pods/  Extend current WordPress post types (Posts, Pages, etc.)  Create your own post types  Create your own custom meta fields  Create ADVANCED content types (can still use get post meta)

16. Another plugin JSON API - http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/  Great for making web services and apps  Works where Jetpacks’s API didn’t  Allows you to add your own controllers, methods etc without modifying plugin source code  Extends the CMS ability of WordPress into the world of single page html5/js apps

17. One last plugin for both newbies and developers Backup Buddy - http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/http://ithemes.com/purchase/backupbuddy/  Database or full-site backups  Offsite storage  Scheduled backups  Super easy site migration

18. So why WordPress?

19. Just a few reasons why I choose it  There are very few annoyances with WordPress  WordPress is constantly under active development  The WordPress community is excellent  WordPress is safe  WordPress is extremely forgiving and easy to use. A single person can run large sites

20. Questions?