{"id":1627,"date":"2012-08-22T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2012-08-21T07:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:55:12","slug":"building-a-better-cms-making-it-beautiful-for-the-people-who-maintain-the-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/building-a-better-cms-making-it-beautiful-for-the-people-who-maintain-the-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Better CMS: Making it Beautiful for the People who Maintain the Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/files\/2012\/07\/gulick_200.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Gulick\" style=\"width:150px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you develop WordPress as a CMS, it&#8217;s important to think about the needs of CMS users: the people who update the website. What&#8217;s important to them? What role does the website play in meeting their goals? Which is more important to them: flexibility or efficiency?<\/p>\n<p>The answers to these questions may vary from one client to the next, but in general, a well-designed CMS for a business or professional organization minimizes the need for styling and hand-coding. These are activities that take time and lead to inconsistencies in presentation, neither of which are good for the business\/organization or the CMS users. We&#8217;ll talk about techniques that limit the need for these time-wasting, design-mucking activities, making website updates as efficient as possible: custom fields, custom post types, and modification of the TinyMCE editor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/session\/building-a-better-cms-making-it-easier-for-the-people-who-maintain-the-website\/\">WordCamp Session<\/a>\u00bb |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2012.albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/#ray-gulick\">Speaker Profile<\/a>\u00bb |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evowebdev.com\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker Website<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you develop WordPress as a CMS, it&#8217;s important to think about the needs of CMS users: the people who update the website. What&#8217;s important to them? What role does the website play in meeting their goals? Which is more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/building-a-better-cms-making-it-beautiful-for-the-people-who-maintain-the-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building a Better CMS: Making it Beautiful for the People who Maintain the Website<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5583229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hGK7-qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5583229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albuquerque.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}