WordPress as a CMS (short version)
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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
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- 1. WordPress U Stephanie Leary Texas A&M University
- 3. Blogging vs. Content Management
- 4. CMS capabilities • posts vs. pages • scheduled publishing • basic workflow • easy media embedding • excellent SEO • ubiquitous feeds
- 5. Feeds for... • Recent posts • categories • tags • tag combinations • search results • custom taxonomies & types
- 12. Posts • included in feeds • categories • tags • excerpts • comments and trackbacks • custom fields
- 13. Pages • not included in feeds • page parent • template • menu order • comments and trackbacks • custom fields
- 14. Pages * • included in feeds • categories • tags • excerpts
- 15. Dirty little secret: Posts are pages. Pages are posts.
- 17. Things that are posts • blogs • newsletters • news archives • magazines • press releases • journals • podcasts • ...
- 18. Things that are posts • anything you want in a feed • anything that should be organized by date
- 19. Things that are pages • About Us • Our Mission • Hours and Locations *
- 22. Things that are pages • anything that does not often change • anything that is not organized by date
- 23. Custom content types • Post-like: non-hierarchical • Page-like: hierarchical • Support... • title • page attributes • author • comments • content • trackbacks • thumbnails • excerpts • revisions • taxonomies
- 27. Theme files • posts • authors • pages • content types • date archives • individual... • categories • IDs • tags • slugs • taxonomies • author names
- 29. Theme/plugin hybrid can be defined in functions.php or installed as part of a plugin
- 30. Built-in widgets • Archives • Meta • Categories • log in/out • feed • Calendar • Recent posts • Links • Tag cloud • RSS • Text • Pages
- 33. 8,862* official plugins * at last count
- 34. Plugins can... • add widgets • provide custom fields • create template tags • create content types • modify loops • add taxonomies • create shortcodes • ... • alter user roles
- 35. Useful plugins
- 37. We wanted... • pages • a blog • subscribe to comments • a podcast • a contact form w/spam guard • a private area • users to be redirected on login
- 39. Users • username • IM info • name • Gravatar • email • bio • URL
- 41. Roles • Admin • Editor • Author • Contributor • Subscriber
- 43. Publish settings • Public • Password-protected • Private
- 44. Problems with “private” • visibility: menus • granularity: groups • privileges: roles
- 48. 3.0 Features • custom post types • taxonomies • page-like • category-like • post-like • backgrounds • single-type.php • new tags • author templates • the_shortlink • author-nick.php • comment_form • author-ID.php • get_template_part http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0
- 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
- 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.