Being a WordPress developer I build a lot of sites and getting things started can take a lot of time. Getting your site, themes plugins etc. ready to go, seems to always take longer than it should, as well as being something that we keep repeating. I therefore went about solving this in a fairly low level simplified way. What I created, I am calling WP Skeleton.
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We have all used FTP as developers to move files from editing them locally to our production server. Developers know the problems this can cause and why alternatives are needed. In this talk I will introduce my WordPress development process and how you can move on from FTP to a more robust development and deployment system.
Recently I was working on a project where I was carrying out some additional page queries and therefore using the excellent WP_Query class with WordPress. The requirements were slightly different however as there was some custom sorting needed. Here is how I utilised sorting the results of WP_Query with multiple post meta keys.
WP_Query is the heart of a more complex WordPress site build as it allows you to query different content objects in WordPress and then loop through the results to display these in your templates where you need to. Rarely do I build a site without it.
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A few years ago I built the WP Broadbean WordPress plugin in order to integrate Broadbean job posting with a WordPress website. This is has proved a highly successful plugin with a number of sites now actively using this. In fact Broadbean themselves are keen for WordPress users to adopt its use. Recently I have been working on another solution for WordPress sites which integrates the very popular WP Job Manager plugin with Broadbean. Allow me to introduce the WP Job Manager Broadbean Add-on.
WP Job Manager Broadbean Add-onThe WP Job Manager plugin has a number of add-ons that are listed on the add-ons page of the website. You will now see a Broadbean add-on listed, and many thanks to the team for allowing this add-on onto their page for third party add-ons.
I have decided that the plugin will be a paid for product, much like the other add-ons on that page and also that it will be licensed. like many other commercial current commercial plugins. There are two type of license, each lasting for a period of 12 months, giving purchasers support throughout that period as well as updates. The licenses are either for 1 site, priced at £99.99 or for unlimited sites priced at £199.99.
The add-on is activated like a normal plugin would be and contains a settings tab under the WP Job Managers settings page. On here users can set a username and password for their incoming feed as well as activating their license. Also on this page are instructions on what information to pass through to the team at Broadbean in order for them to send the job data to your site.
It is worth noting here that the plugin is dependent on data being sent from Broadbean. This is something that would be specific to your site and therefore needs to be built by the Broadbean integrations team. For this reason they will probably have a charge for this too and it is worth speaking with your Broadbean account manager about this.
So if you are a recruitment business using Broadbean and you have a WordPress website of you own running the WP Job Manager plugin to show jobs on your site, you can know include jobs you post through Broadbean on your site as well. There will no longer be the need to add them in two places!
View the WP Job Manager Broadbean Add-on
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