This is the talk i gave at Wordcamp India which explains how we used Wordpress to build RadioVeRVe(http://radioverve.com)

1. Building a radio site
on wordpress

2. Building a radio site
on wordpress

3. Standing on the
shoulders of Giants
http://blogs.gnome.org/shres/2009/01/05/shoulder-of-
giants/

6. In the beginning...

8. Textpattern

9. We moved
because...

10. Extensibility

11. Well known CMS

12. Plugins
From scratch butt to land on moon

13. That lovely
community

14. After about 6
months of work...

17. Design 3

19. Learnt some
important lessons

20. Deal with multiple
databases

21. define('IC_DB_NAME', 'phqueue');
define('IC_DB_USER', 'phqueue');
define('IC_DB_PASSWORD', 'blahblah');
define('IC_DB_HOST', 'localhost');
if( !function_exists('switch_to_icecast_db') ) {
function switch_to_icecast_db() {
$connect = mysql_connect(IC_DB_HOST,
IC_DB_USER, IC_DB_PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(IC_DB_NAME}
}
}

22. Ze plugins are
Fscked in wp_head

23. Programmatic Pages

24. $my_post = array();
$my_post['post_title'] = $artist_name;
$my_post['post_type']='page';
$my_post['post_author']=$user_id;
$my_post['post_status'] = 'publish';
$my_post['post_parent']='32';
$postid=wp_insert_post( $my_post );
if($postid){
$sql=quot;insert into {$wpdb->prefix}postmeta
(post_id,meta_key,meta_value) VALUES('$postid','_wp_page_templat
e','artistinfo.php')quot;;
$wpdb->query($sql);
}

25. Ninja foo

26. add_action('load-profile.php',
'rv_update_profile', 98);

27. Ninja Bar

28. $user = wp_authenticate($username,
$password);
if(!is_wp_error($user)){
wp_signon(array('user_login'=>
$username, 'user_password'=>
$password,'remember'=>'true'));
echo quot;1quot;;
}else

29. wp_enqueue

30. huge thanks to
everyone who makes
wp happen!

31. One can see further
standing on
shoulders of giants!

32. Thanks