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WordPress Widgets
Alex King
1Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Introduction
• Background
• History with WordPress
• Crowd Favorite
2Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Agenda
• WordPress Overview
• WordPress Widgets
• Demo ShareThis, Lijit, Twitter,Popularity Contest
• CMS Integration
• Other Benefits
• Resources
• Q & A
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WordPress
• Blogging system
• CMS
• Open Source
• Customizable (Themes, Plugins)
• Widgets standard in 2.2 (May 2007)
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WordPress Widgets
• Written in PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Uses WordPress APIs
• Added by Plugin or Theme
• Settings (title, options, etc.)
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Demos
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ShareThis
• Traditional widget delivery
• WordPress specific settings
• Coming soon: integrated registration and configuration within WordPress
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Lijit• Delivers features of their standard
JavaScript widget
• User registration and login from the WordPress interface
• WordPress specific settings
• Access Lijit stats and preferences from WordPress interface
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Twitter Tools
• API integration vs. Flash/JavaScript widget
• Two way integration between WordPress and Twitter
• Delivers Twitter content from local datastore
• Twitter content embedded in HTML source
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Popularity Contest
• No 3rd party data or service
• Records and mines local data
• Provides sidebar widgets
• Local options and settings
• Local reports
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Tight Integration
• WordPress specific settings
• WordPress-style UI and interactions
• Leverage/connect to local data
• APIs make it happen
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Other Benefits
• Large publisher base
• Publisher control
• Performance: local data vs. remote data
• Content is indexed by search engines
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Distribution
• Downloadable plugins
• Many sources including WordPress.org (easier in 2.7)
• Significant publisher base
• Passionate community
13Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Resources
• WordPress Widget APIhttp://automattic.com/code/widgets/api/
• WordPress Pluginshttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins
14Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Q & A
http://crowdfavorite.com
WordPress Development, Design & Consulting
15Tuesday, November 4, 2008