Hold Up! WordPress Can Do That?!? GTFO!

Hold Up!
WordPress Can
Do That?!?
GTFO!
Mike Richwalsky & Jesse Lavery

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

#GTFO

Mike Richwalsky
Director of Marketing Services,
John Carroll University
@mrichwalsky | www.highedwebtech.com

Jesse Lavery
Web Content Coordinator,
Allegheny College
@jesselavery | (blog coming soon. maybe.)


WordPress ==
“just a blog”


G T F O
WordPress ==
“just a blog”


Find WordPress


They’re all
WordPress.


G T F O
They’re all
WordPress.


Why WordPress?

Open Source, extendable, scalable and
hackable

Amazingly robust community of coders,
plugin developers, designers, themes, support
and more


Many ways to
generate content


Blog.


Figured we’d
get the obvious
one out of the
way.


CMS

I’m not a playa,
I just crush a lot

User-friendly

Full control over design, layout, elements

Many free and premium themes, or make your
own.


Blogs

All the cool kids are doing it.


CMS


CMS

Allegheny College

Running WordPress 3.0.1 network
(formerly WordPress MU)

151 WordPress sites with 104 users/
editors ...and growing.

Administrative ofﬁces, academic departments,
some committees, Student Involvement


CMS

Allegheny College


CMS


Running WordPress 3.0.1 network

Launched August 2010

10/10/10: 27 sites, 35 authors

Sustainability, Magazine, Alumni, International
Admissions, Civic Engagement


CMS



CMS

Must-Have Plugins
Amazon S3 for WordPress
http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-s3/

Breadcrumb NavXT
http://mtekk.us/code/breadcrumb-navxt/

User Role Editor
http://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/

TS Custom Widgets
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slayers-custom-widgets/


CMS

Must-Have Plugins

WP Super Cache
http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/

WPTouch
http://www.bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch-pro/

Automatic WordPress Backup
http://www.webdesigncompany.net/automatic-wordpress-backup/


CMS

Amazon S3 for
WordPress

S3


CMS

Amazon S3 for
WordPress

S3
Magic!


CMS Breadcrumb NavXT


CMS

User Role Editor


CMS WPTouch


CMS Automatic Backup

Automatically
Backup Your
WordPress
To The
Cloud


CMS

Custom Post Types

Custom post type for
users to change rotating
banners

Add via function or
plugin


Learning
Management
Software


LMS

LMS
ScholarPress, BuddyPress

Features similar to Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle

Private courses, groups, forums & blogs
Classes can be archived, materials reused

More user friendly than [insert LMS here]
Seriously, have you ever tried to use, let alone manage Blackboard?

Extendable via plugins


LMS


Online
Magazine


Magazine

John Carroll magazine


Portal


Portal

My Allegheny


Portal

My Allegheny
Set as browser home page on every computer
across campus

News items go through an approval process

Most used page at Allegheny (by far)

Daily summary via email (via MailChimp)

Pulls in content via RSS


Portal

My Allegheny

Rotating banner: used to promote special
events, monthly “Wellness Focus”, etc.

Service buttons: many people don’t know any
other way to access their email than through
this button!


Social Network
In a Box


Job Board

Social Network
http://buddypress.org

BuddyPress Plugin Does All the Work

You control access, features, security

Esp. with services like Ning going pay only

Open source with a passionate developer/
support community


Social Network


I went from nothing
to social network in
seven minutes.


I went from nothing

G F O
seven minutes.
T

I went from nothing

G F O
seven minutes.
T
It would have taken ﬁve,
but I made a custom logo.


Feel free to try it out.
jcuconnect.highedwebtech.com


Job Board


Job Board

Career Opportunities


Job Board

Alumni Opportunities


Job Board

JobPress
http://www.dailywp.com/jobpress-wordpress-theme/

Premium Theme - $79

Heavy lifting = done

Features: Front end submissions, ﬁlter by
category, time stamps, paid submissions, etc.


Classifieds


Classiﬁeds

Garage Sale


Classiﬁeds Garage Sale


Event Calendar


Event Calendar

Event Calendar


Event Calendar

GigPress

http://gigpress.com

Easily customized

RSS & iCal feeds

Good for general events; GREAT for “regular”
performers / groups


Bug / Ticket
Tracking


Ticket Tracking

Quality Control


Ticket Tracking

Quality Control

http://getqualitycontrol.com/

Great for one-man shop

Currently can’t assign tickets

Tickets listed by creator


Write a book.


Books

Create a book
http://anthologize.org/

Create a book from your blog/CMS content

Publish in print and digital formats

Archive student & faculty blogs


Books


Other Resources


Other Resources

WordPress: wordpress.org

Smashing Magazine

Six Revisions

WPMU Dev


#GTFO

Thank You!
Questions? Comments?
Tweet it up!

#GTFO
http://bit.ly/hewebgtfo

@mrichwalsky @jesselavery


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