Building an Autonomous Website
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This document outlines a plan to build an autonomous website that sends daily workout emails to users based on their equipment and abilities. It discusses using WordPress plugins to automate key functions like user signups, access controls, menus, email delivery, and scheduled tasks. The plan is to implement this all within 2 weeks using various plugins to handle spam prevention, redirects, customization, access controls, menus, emails, and scheduled functions like daily updates. It provides examples of specific plugins that could enable each required functionality.
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Building an Autonomous Website
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- 2. BUILD A SITETHAT RUNS BY ITSELF THE GOAL
- 3. EMAIL USERS ADAILY WORKOUT BASED ON THE EQUIPMENT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE AND THE MOVEMENTS THEY ARE CAPABLE OF DOING. THE PLAN:
- 4. THE REQUIREMENTS ▸ Haveall user interaction take place on the front end of the site ▸ Update data daily automatically ▸ Send daily emails automatically ▸ Send weekly emails automatically
- 5. THE REQUIREMENTS ▸ Haveall user interaction take place on the front end of the site ▸ Update data daily automatically ▸ Send daily emails automatically ▸ Send weekly emails automatically ▸ Build it all in 2 weeks
- 6. “THERE’S A PLUGINFOR THAT, RIGHT?” Me
- 7. “YOU BET THEREIS!” The WP Community
- 8. 1) LIMIT SPAMUSER SIGNUPS ▸ Any time you have a site that allows for registrations, you need a way to block user spam.
- 10. 1) LIMIT SPAMUSER SIGNUPS PLUGIN: GRAVITY FORMS USER REGISTRATION ADD-ON
- 11. 2) KEEP USERSOFF THE ADMIN PAGE ▸ Main objective, control the user experience
- 12. 2) KEEP USERSOFF THE ADMIN PAGE PLUGIN: REMOVE DASHBOARD ACCESS
- 13. 3) REDIRECT USERSAT LOGIN ▸ When a user logs in, send them to the most important page. In this case, the user settings page. ▸ If an admin logs in, redirect them to the dashboard.
- 14. 3) REDIRECT USERSAT LOGIN PLUGIN: PETER'S LOGIN REDIRECT
- 15. 4) CUSTOMIZED LOGINPAGE ▸ Again, it’s all about controlling the user experience.
- 16. 4) CUSTOMIZED LOGINPAGE PLUGIN: CUSTOM LOGIN PAGE CUSTOMIZER
- 17. 5) CUSTOM MENUSBASED ON USER TYPE ▸ The site will have 3 types of users ▸ Site visitor / logged out users ▸ Logged in users ▸ Admins ▸ Did I mention controlling the user experience?
- 18. 5) CUSTOM MENUSBASED ON USER TYPE PLUGIN: NAV MENU ROLES
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- 20. 5) CUSTOM MENUSBASED ON USER TYPE PLUGIN: NAV MENU ROLES Admin Logged In User Site Visitor
- 21. 6) LOG IN/OUTMENU ITEM ▸ Logged in users don’t need a “log in” link ▸ Visa versa for logged out users
- 22. 6) LOG IN/OUTMENU ITEM PLUGIN: BAW LOGIN/LOGOUT MENU
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- 24. 7) HIDE CONTENTPAGES FROM NON-MEMBERS ▸ If a user is not logged in, the system doesn’t know which user’s data to display. Therefore, if a visitor isn’t logged in, we hide the content and display a login link. ▸ For admins, I wanted to control that experience as well.
- 25. 7) HIDE CONTENTPAGES FROM NON-MEMBERS
- 26. 7) HIDE CONTENTPAGES FROM NON-MEMBERS
- 27. 7) HIDE CONTENTPAGES FROM NON-MEMBERS PLUGIN: MEMBERS
- 28. 8) RUN FUNCTIONSAUTOMATICALLY ▸ Send daily emails automatically each night ▸ Send weekly emails automatically each Sunday ▸ Update system data automatically each night
- 29. “THE SOFTWARE UTILITYCRON IS A TIME-BASED JOB SCHEDULER IN UNIX-LIKE COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS. PEOPLE WHO SET UP AND MAINTAIN SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS USE CRON TO SCHEDULE JOBS (COMMANDS OR SHELL SCRIPTS) TO RUN PERIODICALLY AT FIXED TIMES, DATES, OR INTERVALS.” wikipedia WHAT IS A CRON JOB?
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- 31. 8) RUN FUNCTIONSAUTOMATICALLY PLUGIN: WP-CRONTROL
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- 33. 9) SEND EMAILSWITH HIGH DELIVERABILITY ▸ Sending emails from shared hosting has a lower chance of making it to your users ▸ Services like Mailchimp, Constant Contact, SendGrid work with providers like yahoo & gmail to ensure higher deliverability
- 34. 9) SEND EMAILSWITH HIGH DELIVERABILITY PLUGIN: SENDGRID
- 35. 9) SEND EMAILSWITH HIGH DELIVERABILITY PLUGIN: SENDGRID
- 36. CUSTOM CODE BUILD THEEMAIL TEMPLATE
- 37. 9) SEND EMAILSWITH HIGH DELIVERABILITY PLUGIN: SENDGRID
- 38. “WAIT, SO THAT’SALL THERE IS TO IT?” You
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- 40. RESOURCES WE COVERED ▸Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On http://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/user-registration/ ▸ Remove Dashboard Access https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/ ▸ Peter's Login Redirect https://wordpress.org/plugins/peters-login-redirect/ ▸ Custom Login Page Customizer https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-customizer/ ▸ Nav Menu Roles https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/ ▸ BAW Login/Logout menu https://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-login-logout-menu/ ▸ Members https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/ ▸ WP Crontrol https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/ ▸ Sendgrid https://wordpress.org/plugins/sendgrid-email-delivery-simplified/
- 41. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ▸ Akismet ▸CMB2 ▸ FacetWP ▸ Google Analytics by Yoast ▸ Gravity Forms ▸ Jetpack ▸ Pretty Link Pro ▸ Yoast SEO ▸ uptimerobot.com
- 42. THANK YOU JOHN HAWKINS ▸john@vegasgeek.com ▸ Blog: VegasGeek.com ▸ All the social medias: vegasgeek Director of Products WebDevStudios pluginize.com