WordPress as a Backend

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Melbourne MobileWordPress as a Backend

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Wherethetruck.at (The website)

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Wherethetruck.at (The IOS app)

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vs

To be clear on what I’m talking about:

“Wordpress.com” is a hosting solution.“Wordpress.org” provide a software you (can) host

yourself.

My discussion talks about the software available at “.org”

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Why you’d want to use WP

It’s huge!This is great for finding

experts + support.

(Also means you’re a target for hackers - read

up on being secure)

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800+ members at WPMelb!

Last year = SydThis year (was) = Melb

*It’s an active community*2013 = 10yrs of wp!

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Ease of use

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Why you might not want to use WP

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Bloat.

But remember -I’m not just talking jQuery.

You’ll get bloat with *any* CMSNote; jQuery’s “$” alias is removed, you can still use other libraries

which seek to monopolise your “$”

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Performance?But before you criticise it:- Are you using Shared hosting? Move to a VPS- Are you using Apache? Move to Nginx- Are you using caching? You should be- Are you using a CDN?...etc

(These recommendations apply to other CMSs also)

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Does the data model suit your needs?

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But if it’s a problem for you, try this solution:https://github.com/markjaquith/

Managing multiple environments can be tricky due to absolute paths in databases,

and wp-config files.

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Now - Let’s look at APIS

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APIs

http://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/

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Out of the box

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Rolling your own:

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Rolling your ownhttp://wherethetruck.at/api/wtta/truck_bio/?

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