This is powerpoint deck of a talk that I gave in 2012 at WordCamp Pune. The slides talk about various use cases of WordPress. There are very few things that WordPress cannot do. It is highly extensible publishing platform that can be moulded into any way that a publisher wants.
Comparing Sidecar-less Service Mesh from Cilium and Istio
WordPress Use Cases - Wordpress Can Do Anything
1. WordPress Use Cases
BY ARUN PRABHUDESAI
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Note: This talk is intended for people who are newly introduced to WordPress
3. 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.
5. Plug and Play Architecture
Real Reason for Growth – Extensibility via Plug & Play
architecture
6. 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)
8. 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
10. 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…
12. 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…
15. 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