Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner, co-founders of WebDevStudios.com, demonstrate interesting and amazing ways you can use WordPress! This is not your standard WordPress showcase presentation. Have you ever seen a WordPress powered iPhone app? How about a Facebook or Open Social app running WordPress? In this presentation you will!

1. Spooky WordPress
Disturbingly Brilliant Uses of WP

2. Brad “The Butcher” Williams
Brian “The Maniac” Messenlehner
• Co-Founder of WebDevStudios.com
• Co-Author of Professional WordPress
• Co-Host of the SitePoint Podcast
• Co-founder of WebDevStudios.com
• That other guy
• Proprietary Software Developer Enlightened by Open-Source
• WordPress! WordPress! WordPress!
Professional WordPress Plugin Development coming March 2011
@williamsba
@bmess
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3. Disturbing Topics
• iPhone Apps Powered by WP
• Facebook Apps Powered by WP
• Interesting Plugins/Themes in WP

4. WordPress is MUCH More
than website software

5. WordPress is MUCH More
than website software
Scary isn’t it?!

6. WordPress is MUCH More
than website software
Scary isn’t it?!
Think Outside the Box! WordPress can be used for anything!

7. If you are stuck in a box that’s an entirely different issue

8. Why Reinvent the Wheel?

9. Core WordPress Features
Content Management with custom types
and taxonomies
User accounts and roles
Image, Media, and Gallery Support
Link Management
Easily extensible with plugins

10. New iPhone App

11. So What Did We Build?
App to End World Hunger?
App to solve a critical problem?
App to provide a useful tool or service?

12. So What Did We Build?
Of Course Not! We Built:
Location Based Pee Tracking

13. Search “ipfree.ly” in the App store

14. New users can register an account (in WordPress)
Uses a modified XML-RPC

15. Existing users can login (and remember me)
Authenticates using WordPress

16. Users can PLOT and add a simple description

17. PLOT is saved and all existing plots are listed

18. http://ipfree.ly

19. Geo data saved as meta data
(custom fields) against the post
Each PLOT is a post in WordPress

20. Every post is listed in WordPress as normal

21. Profile pages show user’s latest plots on a map
http://ipfree.ly/brad

22. Each “plot” is a post in WP with a unique permalink
http://ipfree.ly/brad/empire-state-building/

23. http://ipfree.ly/user - loads the author.php template
http://ipfree.ly/user/postname - loads the single.php template
Facebook like URLs in WordPress

24. http://ios.wordpress.org
100% GPL
http://iphone.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/

25. Crazy Right?

27. What is Auto Photobook?
• Auto Photobook is photo analyzing software
developed by HP Labs.
• Photos are uploaded, analyzed to remove
similar photos and group photos with the
same people and contrasts together than
automatically arranged them into a photo
book that is converted to a .pdf file that can
be printed or emailed to friends to print.
• WDS - Make a Facebook application for Auto
Photobook that users a person’s fb photos.

28. Mother Falcon!!!!
This isn’t WordPress!!!!
Wait, Why Not?!?!?!?
Sure it is…

29. Auto Photobook:
•Users > Books > Pages/Photos
WordPress:
•Users > Posts > Attachments/Photos
http://apps.facebook.com/autophotobook/

30. Benefits of using WordPress:
Use all of the handy WP functions we are used
to using in our day to day lives.
• Use core WP elements like Comments,
Categories & Tags
• Use WP Plugins to extend functionality even
further if need be ie: Post Rating, Caching and
pretty much any other plugin that would work
around a Post.
• We created a Facebook WordPress theme that
makes any WordPress website look and
function like it belongs in Facebook as an App

31. Facebook Application
Meet Keith Milks
(Ax Murderer)
He received a request to
join the Auto Photobook
Facebook Application

33. Extended Permissions
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions
Can request a lot of permissions from access a user’s email address to
reading their Facebook inbox to accessing all of a user’s friends birthdays.

34. Add this user to WordPressWhen Keith allows permission to the app
he gets added as a WordPress user and
some of his Facebook data is saved as
user meta in addition to his name. At this
point we could save any of Keith’s
Facebook data from his birthday to what
movies he likes if we wanted to store it.
A filter is applied to replace all
WordPress avatars with their Facebook
profile photo:
add_filter('get_avatar','fb_get_avatar’);
function fb_get_avatar($fb_id) {
$avatar='<img
src="https://graph.facebook.com/'.$fb_id.
'/picture"/>';
return $avatar;
}
https://graph.facebook.com/any-fb-id/picture will return that users default profile photo

35. Build a Book

36. Process Book
• Creates a WordPress post with the book name
as the title and the description as the content
under the WP user Keith Milks.
• Pushes up any FB photos selected to the Auto
Photobook API.
• Returns book information from Auto
Photobook API and saves it in custom fields
per the post.
• Renders a flash editor with the finished book.

37. Publish Book• Photobook is converted to a .PDF file.
• Photobook pages are converted to individual
images and stored as an attachment against
the WordPress post.
• Post changes from draft to published.
• A Facebook wall post is made on the user’s
Facebook wall.
• If any of the user’s friends were Facebook
tagged in any of the photos they used to
make the book, wall posts will be made on
their Facebook walls as well.

38. News Feed Example

39. Single.php
Can do anything on this page as if it where a post page because it is.
Any comments made will also trigger a Facebook wall post being made
to the authors Facebook wall and the commenter's Facebook wall.

40. All Books - Standard WordPress Loop

41. Friends’ Book – FQL & WordPress Loop
• Facebook Query Language is used to only
return WP authors that are Facebook friends

42. Edit Post Page in Backend
• WordPress automatically provides a backend
UI for managing any books created by any
Facebook users

43. Invite Friends
Spread like a
flesh eating virus!

44. Make It Stop!
#wcphilly after party

45. Notable WordPress Projects
http://collabpress.org
Task Management Plugin

46. Notable WordPress Projects
http://rolopress.com
Contact Manager Theme

47. Notable WordPress Projects
http://getqualitycontrol.com
Simple Ticketing System Theme

48. Questions?

49. Brad “The Butcher” Williams
Brian “The Maniac” Messenlehner
• Email: brad@webdevstudios.com
• Twitter: @williamsba
• Blog: strangework.com
• Email: brian@webdevstudios.com
• Twitter: @bmess
Professional WordPress Plugin Development coming March 2011
Contact
http://bit.ly/pro-wp