page-carbajal/wpexpress

WPExpress

A WordPress Framework for Software Developers

For all of you my fellow developers who are not familiar with WordPress., _(*1)

Instead of trying to sell you into WordPress I'll ask you to do a google search for why wordpress., _(*2)

Then do the same for other Content Management Systems, read a little, then decide what's better for you., _(*3)

I will however tell you why I use WordPress to run my Websites., _(*4)

WordPress powers +25% of the websites on the Internet. This means that 1 of every 4 websites are using it., _(*5)

Some of the bennefits it gives me:, _(*6)

• Improved time to market
• Easily create Content Networks
• Thousands of themes free and premium
• Thousands of plugins free and premium
• It is already a great blogging platform
• Great UX
• BuiltIn API
• Runs on apache or nginx
• It runs 1/4 of the Internet's websites
• And it is Open Source

What is WPExpress

I like using frameworks like Rails, Laravel and Symfony., _(*7)

They make me love writing code., _(*8)

Very smart people wrote hundreds of thousands of lines of code to implement concepts such as Separation of Concern, Convention over Configuration and so on., _(*9)

I love rake, and artisan. I am infatuated with how Symfony is structured as a set of components rather than a full fledged Framework., _(*10)

And I also have a thing for composer, autoloading and depedency management., _(*11)

Last but not least. I worship Mustache and Twig, _(*12)

When you get to know and work in environments as cool as those I have talked about, going back to monolite-style code writing is, HARD., _(*13)

I found myself having to write similar code across different projects and I decided I wanted to focus on writing meaningful code and abstract the repetitive stuff as much as possible., _(*14)

I wanted to go from this, _(*15)

$args = array();

$query = new WP_Query( $args );

wp_reset_post_data();

To this, _(*16)

$posts = Query::Posts->limit(10)->meta('field', 'value')->get();

I wanted to use composer, abstraction and chainable methods, and every other thing I love in modern PHP within WordPress. But here's the compromise. I do not want to change WordPress., _(*17)

I do not want to write my own queries, I do not want to alter the core. I want WordPress to be kept intact. I just want a Framework which will allow me to do more with less., _(*18)

Less configuration, less plugins, less time to market., _(*19)

Finally I am writing this framework to allo my self to focus on writing meaningful code., _(*20)

Quick Start

This small WordPress Frmework is designed to be easy to use., _(*21)

Start by reading our documentation., _(*22)

Framework Structure

• Database WPExpress\Query
  • Query
  • Post
  • Taxonomy
  • User
  • UserRole
• Model
  • BaseModel
  • BaseTaxonomy
  • BaseUser
  • BaseUserRole
  • BaseRelation May Be
• Contracts
  • BaseWordPressFilters (Maybe TBD)
• Admin
  • BaseSettingsPage
  • BaseWidget
  • BaseAPI
• UI WPExpress\UI
  • BaseResources
  • FieldCollection
  • MetaBoxCollection
  • HTMLFieldParser
  • RenderEngine
  • ReactJS (TBD)