Building an Enterprise Application with WordPress
- 1. Building an Enterprise Application with WordPress by Josiah Goff josiahgoff.com | github.com/josiahgoff | @josiahgoff | jettyapp.com
- 2. Overview 1. The Problem We’re Solving 2. Why We Chose WordPress 3. How We’re Using WordPress 4. Q&A
- 3. What’s the most ambitious project you’ve wanted to work on? Could WordPress help you make it a reality?
- 4. The Problem We’re Solving
- 6. Incident Command System The Incident Command System (ICS) is "a systematic tool used for the command, control, and coordination of emergency response"... An ICS is based upon a changeable, scalable response organization providing a common hierarchy within which people can work together effectively. These people may be drawn from multiple agencies that do not routinely work together, and ICS is designed to give standard response and operation procedures to reduce the problems and potential for miscommunication on such incidents. from Wikipedia
- 7. "Enterprise conversation management system" ● Providing information for the public ● Responding to questions from the public ● Monitoring discussions within the online community ● Orchestrating communication within the team Jetty is...
- 9. There are lots of options
- 10. Our requirements On-the-fly website creation Multi-channel distribution User roles/permissions management Reports CMS Virtual call center Easily customizable website templates Social media monitoring Version control / revision system Inquiry system Document approval workflow Multi-site network Press release publishing Status boards CRM Analytics Customizable alerts Integrated help docs In-app messaging system with email integration Intuitive & Responsive UI In-app notifications REST API Integration with WebIAP software
- 12. What WordPress gave us On-the-fly website creation Multi-channel distribution User roles/permissions management Reports CMS Virtual call center Easily customizable website templates Social media monitoring Version control / revision system Inquiry system Document approval workflow Multi-site network Press release publishing Status boards CRM Analytics Customizable alerts Integrated help docs In-app messaging system with email integration Intuitive & Responsive UI In-app notifications REST API Integration with WebIAP software *Full functionality *Partial functionality
- 14. We’re not the only ones Wordpress.com Edublogs Happy Tables Restaurant Engine WPEngine Pressbooks Examples of using WordPress as a SaaS
- 15. WordPress might not make sense for every type of application, but it’s a great match for Jetty.
- 17. How we’re using WordPress Modern PHP app with WordPress as a foundation ● WP and 3rd party plugins loaded as dependencies via Composer ● PHP 5.6.5 Highly customized dashboard ● Custom menus and admin bar ● Custom styling “Mini Single Page Apps” ● REST API ● Backbone.js Leveraging 3rd Parties ● Pusher for push notifications ● Twilio for phone integration ● Mailgun for email system ● Piwik for analytics ● AWS for queueing
- 29. Questions?
- 30. Josiah Goff Blog: josiahgoff.com GitHub: josiahgoff Twitter: @josiahgoff
Editor's Notes
- #2: Thank them for staying until the last session Talk about who you are It’s an interesting use case. Before Jetty, I didn’t know you could do this sort of thing with WordPress. Gonna keep things high level
- #3: Just in case you want to go elsewhere But before we get into that, I want you to ask yourself two questions...
- #4: I want you to start thinking about what’s possible with WordPress
- #6: Does anyone know what this is? 5 years ago Over 200 million gallons of oil How do you make sure people get the facts? Company forms overnight that needs to spin up a website, etc… Controlled chaos
- #7: The most important part is at the bottom -- that’s the problem we’re trying to solve
- #10: I really wanted to go with Meteor
- #11: The more we talked about the requirements, the more we kept saying, “Well, WordPress already does that.” And then finally someone said, “What if we built it on WordPress?” And we were like...
- #12: Then we started thinking about all the advantages… Are we crazy?
- #14: Maybe we’re not so crazy afterall
- #15: There are more and more of these starting up all the time
- #18: So… What does all this look like?
- #21: Big pieces of white paper Must be in the room Can miss when things change -- no revisions
- #22: Syncs with software the field team uses
- #23: Comes through WP-API
- #25: Notifications and comments via email too
- #30: Create a slide with your name on it