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Congratulations – you’re the winner! That’s how I felt when I found out that my post would be the first one for our new CorePHP blog (all things WordPress, web and PHP). It definitely gives me a clean slate and some freedom to talk about PHP and related items. For today, let’s focus on one of the core pieces that helped to build this blog: WordPress.
WordPress is “web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog,” and, ” is both free and priceless at the same time.” Looking at our website, you would have no idea that it’s powered by WordPress. The functionality that the software provides allows us to leverage and automate many of the redundant tasks of maintaining a website.
One place that flexibility comes in handy is in the creation of custom website themes. After an initial theme was chosen, non-technical members of our team were able to use WordPress to fine-tune many of the subtle elements of our website. If a new section or link needed to be created (or shifted around slightly — hence my blog title), one could easily make the adjustment using the administrative side of WordPress.
Another place that we leverage WordPress is in the creation of our blogs (CoreFM, CorePHP, CoreProducts and CoreBusiness — check out the complete list). Currently, I’m writing this in the administrative section of WordPress. Once I’m done, I save my blog and our web editor is automatically notified that a new post is pending review. The editor can then look it over and once it’s ready to go, approve the blog for publishing. Voila! It automatically appears on our website. Two of our products (PDPlace™ and ContinuED®) have a similar mechanisms for class/in-service registration.
In addition to the base functionality, PHP-based plug-ins can be added to WordPress to offer enhanced features. For example, if you wanted to retrieve the latest registration numbers from your PD Place online system, a plug-in could be written to do this. WordPress, built upon PHP, provides a fundamental building block that can be used to create many of today’s modern websites and web tools.
If you’d like to find out more about this, watch for the next CorePHP blog in a couple weeks or subscribe to our RSS feeds!
2 Comments
I was so excited to read in the newsletter that you’ll be blogging about WordPress and PHP
Now if you can talk about how to display Filemaker data on a Page on a WordPress site, i’ll be the happiest camper.
Hi JA,
Thank you for your comment. I’ll forward your comment to the members of the FileMaker team to see if they can provide an answer.