Using WordPress as a content management system in higher education, as shown at the CASE District IV conference in Austin, Texas on March 29, 2010. Be sure to grab the associated handouts:
http://sillybean.net/downloads/case/plugin-handout.pdf
http://sillybean.net/downloads/case/profile-handout.pdf
http://sillybean.net/downloads/case/feed-handout.pdf
50. What’s different in
multisite mode?
• You can create sub-sites
• Each site gets a set of db tables,
its own options, etc.
• Site-wide plugins and themes
installed for all
• Site Admin screen (and role)
51. Network Users
• Can register or be invited
• Can create their own sites
• Can invite users to their sites
• Can be assigned to existing sites
without creating their own
52.
53. Thank you.
Stephanie Leary
Texas A&M University
uwc.tamu.edu
sillybean.net
Editor's Notes
With plugins, pages can do all these things too.
Sky is green, up is down, and we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Posts and pages share the same database table; they have all the same fields.
So what are all the things you can store in the WordPress database?
* - unless you are a traveling circus or a Kogi taco truck
About ten new plugins are added every day.
We accomplished all this with a few plugins and some creative categories. Plugins are: Subscribe to Comments; Podcasting, Podcast Channels (separate podcasts from categories), Contact Form 7, and my own Private Suite with Peter’s Login Redirects.
Here’s a screenshot of our Posts. As you can see, things are jumbled up: courses, announcements, the faculty blog posts, and two videos for students. Not shown: podcasts, handouts, and our own course syllabi, which are all posts as well. We’re going to break out some of these things into custom content types over the summer.
You can change user contact fields using just a little bit of code. Adding a whole new set of fields is also possible, but a little trickier. The code for both these things is in your handout.
This is the Members plugin. Among other things, you can choose which roles can edit or read private posts and pages -- or you can create a whole new role for that purpose.