All things wordpress
Kayt Armstrong
It seems I have volunteered to build a website for two related projects at my institute. We think we want to use Wordpress and at the moment will probably use their paid-for hosting as getting server space here is going to be tricky.
I was wondering if any of you have any favourite books, resources or plug-ins you could recommend? Please bear in mind that the last time I did any web editing it was building CSS from scratch at Southampton in the very early 2000's, and I know things have moved on!
I do have a 'free' wordpress personal blog, so the absolute basics I am very familiar with, but we are talking about having a multi-level site with one main landing page, and then two sub sections with two 'news/blog' type pages, one for each of the projects, each with a number of related static pages. My team are very keen to host .pdf's and slide shows as well.
At the moment I need to know if this is even going to be remotely possible, but my google skills take me to pages that assume a level of knowledge I don't have. I need the absolute basics here! Any suggestions?
Kayt
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Kayt Armstrong
Thanks very much! It's still pitched a bit above my level but I think once I get the basics that will be very useful,
Kayt
Ant Beck
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Dave Potts
For example are you going to include any map data?
Google maps allows you to display mapping data
Openlayers allows you to read data from shape, text files etc so that it
would be possible to render several mapping layers.
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Kayt Armstrong
Both helpful, thanks! We looked at using scribd because then we can hopefully link to Academia but you need a log-in to do some things and we wanted to avoid people having to sign up to something.
With regards to mapping data- due to problems with looting I don't think we want any direct location data on the website- static maps will do for showing research areas etc, but we need to be a bit careful about putting up actual findspots etc,
Kayt
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Dave Potts
A map of the area in context might help on the sort of scale/location.
For example if your site is near Ostia.
Show local map with Ostia in it, Tiber etc. Then in one of the corners
your insert an overlap map which shows the location of Ostia within in the
context of the Italy.
That way you show the context off your site within the landscape, but you
give nothing away to looting scum!
Dave
Ant Beck
Was working on added value by putting the content in a clustered environment where it is more likely to be searched or harvested.
Will give that some thought - how to maximise impact through structured/unstructured searches whilst avoiding a sigin/download barrier.
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Paul Cripps
Indeed, interesting point.
I use wordpress for all the websites I work on (non-profit orgs, commercial companies, my own blogs, local government) and prefer to do as Ant said, using Scribd for docs, Flickr for photos, Slideshare for presentations, YouTube for videos, etc with website content drawing on these services then syndicated out from the Wordpress websites to Facebook pages, Twitter and other sites using RSS. Idea being to add content in appropriate place and then syndicate/recycle/reuse. Nice model. Keeps massive amounts of data off my servers too! I have my own hosting at Dreamhost and would thoroughly recommend that. More flexible than the WP hosted option, not extortionately expensive and Dreamhost have plenty of tools to make setup/admin simpler. Generally though, I maintain the sites and do all the content so using lots of third party services is not an issue but…
I have just run into the same problem with multiple author sites. Giving someone a user account on Wordpress and some instructions to use the wysiwyg editor is one thing, most people get that, but then saying that pdfs should go on Scribd and photos on Flickr is all getting a bit complicated… Wouldn’t it be nice to have some WP plugins that could interface with these services via their APIs so a user can do everything within WP, keep it simple, but the content is then stored in the relevant external provider/service and linked back. In the same way as I as Admin set up the Twitter links and then users can just have their content posted to Twitter on publishing.
Or does anyone know of such plugins already…?
On the subject of fave plugins, if you need a calendar I would recommend this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-event-calendar/
Blooming marvellous. Really straightforward to use/manage, great UI and great for linking up and sharing via ICS, saves time creating new calendar entries in multiple places. Be even better if everyone moved to equivalent platforms rather than publishing list of events as simple html lists…
Tubepress is also excellent for videos (YouTube/Vimeo), on WP sites and elsewhere (as a php library): http://tubepress.org/
Have fun J
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Mia
> I have just run into the same problem with multiple author sites. Giving
> someone a user account on Wordpress and some instructions to use the wysiwyg
> editor is one thing, most people get that, but then saying that pdfs should
> go on Scribd and photos on Flickr is all getting a bit complicated… Wouldn’t
> it be nice to have some WP plugins that could interface with these services
> via their APIs so a user can do everything within WP, keep it simple, but
> the content is then stored in the relevant external provider/service and
> linked back. In the same way as I as Admin set up the Twitter links and then
> users can just have their content posted to Twitter on publishing.
>
>
>
> Or does anyone know of such plugins already…?
Cheers, Mia