Ignore the hint to try WordPress VIP, they want way too much money for what they do.
Important Notes from the Slides:
- The WordPress Ecosystem:
- Self Hosted – runs on your servers, complete control over code and experience, “with great power comes great responsibility”
- WordPress.com – largest WordPress site in the world, self-service + easy setup, SaaS: we run the infrastructure (software as a service)
- Core Philosophy
- WordPress: simple and elegant, but also powerful and flexible
- Extensible: customize via themes and plugins
- Robust API’s: easily integrate with other services
- Open: you own your data and code
- Rapid Iteration: 3 major releases every year + easy upgrades
- Most Popular CMS on the web
- Power 18% or more of the web i.e. 1 in 6 websites is WordPress
- 60+ million WordPress websites
- 22% of all new active domains run WordPress
- 25,000+ plugins and growing
- 1,500+ themes and growing
- 100,000 new WordPress websites every day
- Huge community of service prodivers, web hosts, developers and designers.
- Enterprise CMS: Blog Platform or CMS?
- WordPress recently announced its movement towards CMS improvements instead of its longstanding dedication to blogs. –Not in the slides, brought to you by Sethmatics in lieu of Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress)
- Customize Data layout, multi-author and roles and permissions, multisite to run X websites on single codebase.
- Integration: API with XML-RPC and REST / builtin ajax classes
- Plugins for Active Directory/LDAP, Salesforce, Adobe SiteCatalyst, Brightcove (video) and thousands more.
- Social with Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and the like
- Scalability allows high traffic and volume, built in caching, developer tools, and WordPress.com proves you can host 4,000,000,000 page views per month, 500,000 blog posts per day, 400,000 comments every day and all from a single install of WordPress.
- Security: major groups have vested interest in WordPress, more secure every release with testing and code review by the core team, US Government, financial intuitions and other groups.
- Backups: (ignore VaultPress, use ithemes BackupBuddy)
- Mobile Websites: naturally themes come in all shapes and sizes giving you access to resposive and mobile only website designs.
