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Subjects, Themes, Templates. It is easy or not. By Toni Camps

Thanks to marketplace as Themeforest.com or developers who have released or sold their Themes, that are available to us thousands of designs for our webs, stores, blogs, portfolios and other visual applications.

These WordPress Themes designs have helped many people, without any programming knowledge, to choose a design and in some cases, implement it on their own.

But, is as easy as you think?, Can anyone install a Preimum Topic?, should you use any?, Under what criteria should I buy it and at what price?

All these questions will be answered by Toni Camps in his talk “WordPress templates, easy design or not


If you want to know more about WordPress and the world of WordPress themes do not miss this talk and buy now your ticket, remember we have limited capacity!

Meliá Case Study, WordPress as AppEngine

Ok, WordPress is a CMS (content manager or content management sistem) to create websites and blogs. WordPress is basically a system to manage the content we publish, which users can use it, and many other parameters that needs to be managed within a website or a blog.

But what about WordPress as AppEngine?
Is using WordPress to manage anything other than blogs or websites, you can use WordPress as a backend applications that are running on other systems like facebook pages, which is the case of Melia, mobile applications or other platforms.
It is certainly not common but frequently used as a way to keep costs relatively low compared to using development from scratch and customized.

To illustrate this way of using WordPress in WordCamp Mallorca we have a very powerful and original case study, social media contests for Melia.

Marco Fantón, Social Media Director for MELIA will explain how to use WordPress in an innovative way as App Engine. They have created a platform based on WordPress Multisite for creating quizzes as social apps for customers, interact with them and reward them for their loyalty. Create campaigns using WordPress based webapps and reach users through Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram is possible and Marco Fanton will tell us his experience.

In this gallery you can see the result of what manages the wordpress development of Meliá: