Recently I have done few projects where sites were growing rapidly in terms of functionalities and their current wordpress structure was not good enough to handle those changes. I am going to write about the summary of these personal experiences in this series of articles. I will summarize the steps and work I have done to do this migration.
Why Migration?
We should not do something because we can, should only do if need is there. So before starting it is necessary to understand if you really need the migration from Wordpress to Drupal. Wordpress is really a fantastic system and I have used the wordpress on website where we have done big customization and those sites were getting users visit in millions.
Following points can be considered and discussed with the team before finalizing migration :-
1. What is main purpose of migration?
2. What are the main problems which you are supposed to solve with migration?
3. Is there any available way in the current system using which current system issues can be solved?
4. What is the time different between estimation of migration and solving problem within current system?
5. do you see any future benefits in migration?
6. Do you have required skill set and resources to do the migration?
7. Are you migrating because you do not have resources to manage current system?
Gather answers for these questions and then analyze your situation.
In next part I will discuss what benefits Drupal can provide over a Wordpress system?
I got several messages that I should point out a list of topics which a developer should know in wordpress to categorize him/her as a wordpress programmer.
“Wordpress Programmer” or “Wordpress Developer” terms can be new to someone but due its popularity, term is getting attention and several companies are doing hiring based on wordpress experience only.
So in this post I am just enlisting some points which a wordpress programmer should know.
- How to install wordpress? (Yes it really easy but you should know that
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- How to edit config file of wordpress if needed? You should also know what normally can be edited?
- How to install a plugin in wordpress?
- How to install a theme in wordpress?
- How to modify a them in wordpress?
- What are page templates?
- How you can create/use a different template for archive or category page?
- How you can use widgets?
- How you can create a plugin?
- How you can modify the content of a post or page?
- How you can add something before or after a post/page content?
- What are filters?
- What are actions and how you can define callback functions on a particular action?
- How you can create admin menu using plugins?
- How you can edit the templates in online editor?
- How you can manage widgets?
- How you can manage users and thier different types?
- How you can disable/enable comments on a wordpress site or on a specific page or post?
- How you can use OPML files?
- How you can import RSS feeds?
- How you create custom meta tags in posts?
- How you can add specific attributes to any post or page?
- How you can mange user registration?
- How you can create private blogs or posts?
- At least 10-15 different plugins which can enhance/extend the basic wordpress functionality.
- How you can use caching in wordpress?
- How to upgrade wordpress?
- How to take backup of wordpress posts using export?
- How to take database backup of wordpress? (This can be classifieds as normall database backup process)
Above All
You should know what Wordpress CAN not do by default and what we should not try to do with it
First in the series of my experiments with Open Source CMS, today I will write about my experiments with wordpress as PHP developer.
I heard about wordpress long ago but have used it on large scale since year 2007. I have created some custom setups so different domains can run from same code base. I have also created lots of plugins to handle content customization, displaying different source content like google maps, creating automated posts with different source database, url customizations and lots of things.
I found wordpress very easy to setup, its just few click setup, and in our customization it was just a single click setup for any web site. Creating plugin in very very easy due to its documentation and support for many events and hooks in life cycle of any page.
Different page templates is also one of the great feature of wordpress where you can use different design templates for different pages. I am so impressed with wordpress that I have transferred my this blog to wordpress blog. Wordpress is blessing for PHP developers.
From now I will write about my experiences with Open Source CMSs/E-commerce Solutions everyday, I have planned to write about my projects and my work in those CMSs as a php developer.
I have planned following CMSs :
1. Joomla
2. Wordpress
3. Drupal
4. SugarCRM
5. OsCommerce
6. Magento
7. PHPbb
8. ZenCart
Of course this list will increase everyday,
