Building Micro Web Applications using WordPress Pages

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform, and is one of the updisputed darlings of the Open Source and Web 2.0 world, it’s fair to say we’re all avid users of the platform here at NM towers.

With a little creativity and imagination, it’s relatively simple to build some additional functionality around the core content of your website, using WordPress as the application framework. It’s perhaps a little unconventional to do this, if I were faced with building a Web application from scratch, WordPress wouldn’t be the first choice to spring to mind, however there may be good reasons for choosing WordPress, despite the stiff competition. If the heart and soul of your website requires a solid publishing platform, but you want to tack on a few bells and whistles, then I would say WordPress is a viable option.

WordPress introduced the concept of Pages way back in version 1.5, to allow for the creation and management of static content pages outside the normal blog chronology. This shifted WordPress away from a blogging platform, opening up new possibilities for using it as a CMS.

WordPress Pages are deceptively powerful little things, each page can be handled by a different template, and so is a potential window into a micro Web application. Having the ability to attach arbitrary bits of data to a page through Custom Fields strengthens this position.
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Steve wrote this on 25.04.08 – what do you think?
It's filed in the Development, Web technology box

Free! Slides from our recent seminar

We educate our clients and course ‘guests’ on GIVING IT AWAY!

We say: think of incredibly useful content and tools, create them and give them away.

We say: your boss will say ‘but we don’t want to give it away’. You need to tell him ‘boss, it’s OK to be male, elderly and often wrong’ and you need to educate him about the size of the opportunity, the reach of the Internet, the power of giving and the SEO benefits too.

We give away content too. We don’t just say it - shizzlers - we boom-tickling do it.

So please enjoy:

Plus, as an extra titbit - how cool is SlideShare? You just upload yer slides, and bada bing, it gives you a neat snippet of code to insert on your web page or blog, and boom tickey boom - WIDGET INSERTED :). Happy days, web campers, happy days…

Will McInnes wrote this on 02.05.07 – what do you think?
It's filed in the Free things, Interesting box