WordPress-based Platforms

Mario Peshev @no_fear_inc

WordPress Engineer DevWP.eu

Mario Peshev

• WordPress Engineer @ Placester

• DevirX CTO

• @no_fear_inc

• Trainer and consultant

• WPBGUG organizer

• Java/PHP/Python background

Little Known Facts

1. I am *NOT* the WordUp! organizer

Working on…

WordCamp Bulgaria 2013 planned in

October

• Application submitted for Oct 26-27

WordPress Bulgaria User Group – monthly

meetup

• Next one planned for May 22

• May 27 – WordPress Anniversary!

2. In Open Source we trust

• Tell me what your favorite plugin is…

• And one of you will receive my WordUp! T-shirt

WordPress is…

• A simple blogging platform

• Designed for small sites

• Doesn’t scale well

• Not really popular

Bullshit

WordPress Supports

• Custom Post Types

• Custom Taxonomies

• Custom Fields

• Hooks

• APIs for everything

So, what is a WordPress-based

Platform?

WordPress.com Stats

Based on Iliya’s talk at WordCamp San

Francisco, 2012:

• 115 million page views per day

• 2.6 billion requests per day

• Over 200 plugins

• 500ms per page

• nginx + PHP-FPM

Behind ManageWP

• The largest WordPress-based SaaS

• A single WordPress installation

• Site, blog, backend run a standard, core

compatible architecture

• 24 core server with nginx + PHP-FPM +

Zend Optimizer

• 1.2M hits a day for 8% server load

Other Platforms and Products

All Credit Goes To

• Anna Ladoshkina for some platform ideas

• All the speakers at the event

• Marko in particular – THANKS MARKO!

• Telerik Academy for hosting the event for free

• Host.bg for sponsoring the event

• Everyone in the room for attending

Questions?

Tweets as @no_fear_inc

Mario Peshev on LinkedIn

nofearinc on WordPress.org

GitHubering via mpeshev

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