WordPress and the Enterprise

WordPress: Not just a blogSource: Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word 2013 talk at WordCamp http://www.slideshare.net/photomatt/state-of-the-word-2013

What Enterprises want

Security Concerns

• Patches and What-if-it-breaks– Back-ups and versioning

• WordPress is not secure myth– It powers 20%+ of the internet!

• If it’s built on PHP, it has to be vulnerable

Addressing those concerns

• Secure hosting• Secure WP• Back-up plug-ins• Security plug-ins• Too many plug-ins!

Secure hosting: Server credentials

Source: http://xkcd.com/936/

Secure permissions and access rights

• 755 for Directories• 644 for Files

More: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

Plug-ins

• Security Plug-ins– iThemes Security–WordFence

• Backup Plug-ins– Vaultpress– BackupWordPress

• Do you really need so many?

Experts speak

The WordPress team is doing their part to ensure your security on the web, can you say the same thing?

- Sucuri Blog

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Can it handle 100 active users, what about 200,000?

Addressing Scale

• Serverside changes– Pagespeed– Varnish– HHVM instead of PHP (approx 2x)– Nginx instead of Apache

Addressing Scale

• Plug-ins– WP-SuperCache– W3TC– WP Minify– Jetpack Photon

Content Management Workflows

• Event based triggers– Inform user A when user B does something

• Discussion spaces• Access based rules

Communications and Collaboration

• Hooks– e.g user registration– Building custom hooks – Filters

• Beautiful commenting engine• User roles to limit access

Support concerns

• Uptime• Change requests• Reports• Service Level Agreements

Professional Support

• WordPress agencies and a vast eco-system of freelancers

• Large scale System Integrators also hiring WordPress developers e.g Big 4

Case Studies• Time.com• TechCrunch• FoodFood• One of the top 5 Insurance providers in India

– WP as Employee Recruitment platform– WP as Sales Training platform

• Sears– Sears India – Sears Global Technology

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