WordPress Use CasesBY ARUN PRABHUDESAI

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Note: This talk is intended for people who are newly introduced to WordPress

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WordPress can do EVERYTHING!

Ok.. Maybe not everything….but on the web, WordPress can create almost any solutionyou can think of!

What do I know about WordPress?

• WordPress user for about 7 years!• Spent over 4000 hours on WordPress till date

(for one thing or other)• Created 10 different WordPress based

applications• Tried over 300 different plugins• Used hundreds of WordPress based apps.

Why WordPress?

Plug and Play Architecture

Real Reason for Growth – Extensibility via Plug & Play architecture

WordPress Stats

Over 25000 plugins Over 10000 Themes 15 percent of Internet running on WordPress 24.5 percent domains running on WordPress Over 60 million WordPress Sites in the World About 40 percent of WordPress on Self-hosted

platform (.org vs .com)

WordPress Use Cases

Blog (duhh…)News / online magazineStatic WebsitesDynamic WebsitesPrivate Journal / Diary

But WordPress does much…much more…

E-Commerce Websites

Full Fledged E-Commerce website can be built on WordPress

Entire shopping cart flow and PayPal payment gateway integration

Many Free as well premium plugins and themes available

Plugins: WP e-Commerce, Jigoshop, ShopperPress (premium), eshop, WooCommerce & many more

Job Board / Classified Websites

Using WordPress you can create a entire Jobsite or a Classified website in matter of hours.

Businesses can use it for their recruitments and attracting resumes

Many Full-featured Job-board themes and plugins are available

Themes & Plugins: JobRoller, JobPress, Tapp Jobs, WP Job Board, WP Careers, Templatic Job Board, 9 to 5, and many more…

Private Social Network / Community Website / Intranet

BuddyPress, a full-featured Social Networking platform, comes from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

With BuddyPress you can create a fully featured niche social-network with a few easy clicks.

BuddyPress installation can be used as community website or even as an Intranet for a large office setup.

And again, it is free…

Portfolio Websites / Showcase

WordPress offers hundreds of themes and plugins for professionals to showcase their work

WordPress is probably the most popular platform used by artists, photographers and designers across the world

Q&A Website / Discussion Forums

Membership Websites

Wiki Websites

And Many more… Comparison Engine

Event Management sites

Full Fledged Project Management

Video Sites

Directory sites

Recipe / Cooking sites

Fan Sites

Landing Pages

Music Sites

Hotel Bookings

Real Estate Showcase

Most Important Resources WordPress Plugin Repository - http://

wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

WordPress Theme Repository - http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

WordPress Showcase - http://wordpress.org/showcase/

And lastly just search in Google…

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Question to Audience:Can you name 3 Web apps that are not available (or can’t be developed) on WordPress?