6. WordPress.org
WordPress is free software which you
can use to create fantastic websites.
WordPress.com
WordPress.com is a web hosting service from
Automattic which hosts fantastic websites.
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18. 15.3%
of the top million websites run
WordPress.
(the nearest competitor has 2.7%)
Source:
http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
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20. Why use a CMS?
When you have a lot of content,
managing it becomes very complex.
CMS's make things simpler.
• Content lives in the database.
• The "look" of the website lives in the theme/template.
• The CMS brings the two together, in real-time.
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21. WordPress is written in PHP
PHP is a language designed for the web
• Native HTML support
• Has functions to do the types of things web pages do
• Actively being developed
• Works on any platform
• Works with any webserver software (apache, nginx, litespeed)
PHP is easy to learn, if you ever needed to do so.
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32. Upcoming WordCamps
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Nairobi, Kenya
Detroit, MI
Richmond, VA
Copenhagen, Denmark
Baku, Azerbaijan
Edmonton, Canada
Omaha, NE
Singapore
Paris, France
Madrid, Spain
Tokyo, Japan
(and that's just for the remainder of November!)
http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/
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42. Plugin API
Actions and Filters
(the missing part of PHP)
Actions let you hook your own code into defined points of page
generation.
Filters let you modify specific useful variables at specific points,
such as return values from WordPress core functions.
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43. Theming Resources
Theme Review Team
All themes on WordPress.org get reviewed
for quality and compatibility.
The tools used are freely available to
help you create better themes.
Theme Check
Log Deprecated Notices
Debogger
http://make.wordpress.org/themes/
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44. Object Oriented Programming
(well... almost...)
WordPress has historically been written with mostly procedural
code.
However, with WordPress 3.0, and the new PHP 5.2 requirement,
WordPress is rapidly evolving to include classes and objects for
more and more aspects of the core code base.
(Procedural code still works fine though, if that's more your
style...)
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