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WordPress.
You gotta love WordPress.
DaFED, Novi Sad, 2014
Milan Ivanović
@lanche86
lanche86.com

Razor Communications
Frontend Team Lead
WordPress
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WP Valet
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Custom Themes
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Tweaks and Fixes

DaFED#21 - WordPress. You gotta love WordPress 2014

WP Serbia
wpserbia.rs
@WPSerbia
meetup.com/WordPress-Serbia
WordPress Srbija Facebook

WP Serbia
Cilj organizovanja zajednice: WordCamp Serbia

1. WordPress Meetup
19. april 2013.
30 attendees
3 speakers

2. WordPress Meetup Serbia
22. april 2014.
TITLE: "Community Lift-off"
80 attendees
4 speakers
1 photographer

WordPress Community Serbia
...?
Milan Dinić
Marko Heijnen
Ivan Bjelajac
Milan Ivanović

WordPress Serbia Jobs
jobs.wpserbia.rs

13. maj 2014
18.00h, Mikser House
PRIJAVITE SE!

http://wordpress.org/about/
“Start a blog or build a full-fledged website. The only limit is
your imagination.”

Coding Guidelines
Follow the official coding guidelines. Always!
PHP Coding Standards
HTML Coding Standards
CSS Coding Standards
JavaScript Coding Standards

Theme vs Plugin
The customer should be able to switch themes
at any point without losing neither content nor
functionality.
@bjornjohansen

Suit Up Your Hosting Plan!
Do not be a cheapskate and go for the cheapest option.
GTmetrix | Website Speed and Performance Optimization
Pingdom Website Speed Test
PageSpeed Insights

Invest in Your development!
Buy / donate plugins that will save Your time.
Invest in the things that will make Your life easier

Selecting the Perfect Theme for
WordPress
Pick a Theme that Relates to Your Industry
Strive for simplicity!
Functionality!
Check for Browser Compatibility! !
Try to find Free Theme, first!
Browsershots.org

Installing a Theme
Download a Theme / Upload a Theme
Activate it!
Import sample data (if you must & if there’s any)
DELETE UNNECESSARY
pages
posts
comments
CRAP

Create ﬂexible themes
“Make sure your theme doesn’t dictate the
content, but is flexible enough to handle added
or removed sections.”
@bjornjohansen

Take care of your Plugins!
DOES IT KILL YOUR SPEED?
No. Number of installed plugins are not killing the speed on your
website. Bad plugins does.

Take care of your Plugins! #2
DELETE UNNECESSARY PLUGINS, LIKE, REALLY!
Don’t just deactivate them.

Go to wordpress.org and Favourite (Bookmark) plugins that you like.

Highly recommended plugin to use is .
The most effective way of seeing what plugins are slowing down
your website.
P3 Profiler

Why build / use plugins?
To modify, enhance and customise your WordPress website!
Add functionality without editing the core!
30,847 plugins, 651.284.858 downloads… and counting

Optimize Your Images for the Web
Photoshop, “Save for Web” option.
A good plugin to optimize images:
Stripping meta data from JPEGs, optimizing JPEG compression…
WP Smush.it
Downloads: 831,276

Optimize Your Images for the Web #2
Way better plugin to optimize images:
Nearly any image in WordPress can be optimized.
EWWW Image Optimizer
Downloads: 264,280

Optimize Your Images for the Web #3
Photon
, Bulk activate or deactivate Jetpack modules and view
them in a standard list table format.
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Rocketeer
Downloads: 10,012,552

Optimize Your Website
by Bjørn Johansen ( )
Lazy loading makes your site load faster and saves bandwidth.
Uses jQuery and degrades gracefully for non-js users.
Works with both images and iframes.
Lazy Load @bjornjohansen
Downloads: 82,779

Social Media Buttons & Widgets
Official sharing buttons, due to calls they make to external services
can increase loading times immensely.
Change to text links or locally stored social media images, and
reduce your page size by up to one megabyte.

Enable Gzip Compression
Gzip compression allows a website page to be transferred to a
browser at up to 70% of its original size.
The browser will then decompress the page and display it to the
user.
www.example.com/wp-admin/options.php

Enqueue CSS and JS properly
Use and hooks for every
single JS or CSS file you use.
This is a must!
wp_enqueue_script wp_enqueue_style

Minify and Combine CSS and Javascript
ﬁles
Decrease number of requests with .
All CSS files combined in a single file.
All external Javascript files loading asynchronously.
Minit

Full page caching with
W3 Total Cache
is probably the best caching plugin out there.
Tons of features, easy to setup, recommended.
W3 Total Cache

Advanced Custom Fields
Powerful fields for WordPress developers.
Custom fields. Made easy.
Use the plugin to take full control of your
edit screens & custom field data.
Add-ons is a must-try!
Advanced Custom Fields

WordPress SEO by Yoast
Improve your WordPress SEO:
Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site
using
WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast

Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin.
Simple but flexible.
Contact Form 7

Gravity Forms
Advanced Forms for WordPress Websites Just Don't Get
Any Easier than
Add-ons is a must-try.
Gravity Forms

Tailor the admin to your
client’s needs
If your client only needs to update pages, make sure that is
everything they see in the backend.
Noel Tock has a great presentation on that subject

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lanche86.com
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