Using WordPress as a Web Framework
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Sylvain Carle presents the use of WordPress as a powerful web framework for local search, highlighting the success of his company, Praized Media, founded in 2006. The platform leverages existing technologies and frameworks, emphasizing reusability and community involvement while offering open-source plugins and applications for enhanced user experience. Carle discusses the importance of building a developer community and integrating various applications, demonstrating WordPress's versatility beyond traditional blogging.
Using WordPress as a Web Framework
- 1. Using WordPress as a Web Framework (ceci n'est pas un blogue) Sylvain Carle of Praized Media WordCamp Montréal 2009
- 2. whois afroginthevalley? Montréal Internet Geek, gone west, came back
- 3. Been blogging for almost 10 years
- 4. Been doing internet startups for 15 years
- 5. Involved in the local community BarCamp, WebCamp, *Camp On the board of (current/ past ) Alliance Numérique, Ile-Sans-Fil
- 6. FACIL, Linux-Québec, CAUCE and a few others Human Hub
- 7. traceroute praizedmedia.com Company kickstarted during a Yulbiz event in 2006
- 8. Three blogger co-founders (2 natives, one natural born)
- 9. Got 1Mil+ funding from Garage Technology Canada (now CSL)
- 10. Based in Montreal with plans for World Domination ;-)
- 11. locate business model Local Search industry is several Billions per year
- 12. Propose a model based on users, not merchants
- 14. Opportunity for Social Software for Local Search
- 15. grep platform Develop a platform for distributed local search
- 16. Been thinking about platform for a long time
- 17. Figured out that successful platforms are built on top of successful platforms
- 18. Figured out that WordPress was an incredibly successful platform and would continue to grow tremendously
- 19. more stack Anti Not Invented Here Syndrome (re-use is king)
- 20. Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) for servers
- 21. Hosted at Amazon EC2 + Liquid Web
- 22. Ruby On Rails for platform / API
- 23. MySQL + Sphinx for search
- 24. WordPress and PHP for distributed views
- 25. jQuery + CSS framework
- 26. TRAC for subversion + tickets + wiki
- 27. talk wordpress Two plugins, Community and Place Picker
- 28. Open Source core libs wrapped for WP
- 29. Works with WP, WP-MU, BuddyPress (and soon BBPress)
- 30. Free hosting for local blogs with WP on praized.net
- 31. blogs.praized.com (praized planet) is where most of our PR/Marketing efforts
- 32. ifconfig plugins (praized) Decided to develop for blog platforms (as Blogs or CMS)
- 33. Found local talent on WP-Hackers Mailing List (Hi Steph!)
- 34. Did initial release for MT and WP but WP has 95% usage on our network
- 35. ifconfig plugins (you) Use WordPress for views (themes) and extra feature needed thru other plugins Existing knowledge from sysadmins to designers Using the WordPress native models (users, posts, comments)
- 36. Both these are now much easier with the new WP API for pretty much anything
- 37. Backpress is the project to look for even more
- 38. Future is probably “packaging” plugins+themes for specific applications on top of WordPress
- 39. uptime api.praized.com API supports XML and JSON
- 40. PHP classes to wrap all call in WP
- 42. 50 Mil+ call last month to api.praized.com
- 43. Open Source Licenses for most software
- 44. Working on Opening licenses for GeoData and places
- 45. apt-get install developers Building a developer community is a process of love, patience and passion
- 46. Work with existing developers for similar platforms, our scope is “Open Web” Firefox and Laconi.ca integration under development Blogs, mobile apps, web apps, libs in + languages
- 47. International, all our software is i18n, all our target platform are, wordpress is by far the most succesful
- 48. We end up having wordpress installations that are not blogs at all, check out http://answers.yellowpages.ca for an example
- 49. ping me http://afrog.in/ + http://afroginthevalley.com/ http://blogs.praized.com/dev http://api-tribe.com/ Sandbox for developers @afrognthevalley @sylvaincarle on twitter @afroginthevalley on identi.ca http://code.google.com/p/praized/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/praized-community/ www.praized.com