Presented by Mike Richwalsky and Jesse Lavery at the HighEdWeb conference on October 11, 2010.

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

2. #GTFO

3. 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.)

4. T F O
WordPress ==
G
“just a blog”

5. Find WordPress

11. T F O
They’re all
G
WordPress.

12. Why WordPress?
Open Source, extendable, scalable and
hackable
Amazingly robust community of coders,
plugin developers, designers, themes, support
and more

13. Many ways to
generate content

14. Blog.

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

16. 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.

17. Blogs
All the cool kids are doing it.

18. CMS

19. 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

20. CMS
Allegheny College

21. CMS
Allegheny College

22. CMS
Allegheny College

23. CMS
John Carroll University
Running WordPress 3.0.1 network
Launched August 2010
10/10/10: 27 sites, 35 authors
Sustainability, Magazine, Alumni, International
Admissions, Civic Engagement

24. CMS
John Carroll University

25. CMS
John Carroll University

26. 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/

27. 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/

28. CMS
Amazon S3 for
WordPress
S3
Magic!

29. CMS Breadcrumb NavXT

30. CMS Breadcrumb NavXT

31. CMS
User Role Editor

32. CMS WPTouch

33. CMS Automatic Backup
Automatically
Backup Your
WordPress
To The
Cloud

34. CMS
Custom Post Types
Custom post type for
users to change rotating
banners
Add via function or
plugin

35. Learning
Management
Software

36. 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

37. LMS

38. LMS

39. LMS

40. Online
Magazine

41. Magazine
John Carroll magazine

42. Magazine
John Carroll magazine

43. Portal

44. Portal
My Allegheny

45. 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

46. 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!

47. Social Network
In a Box

49. 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

50. Social Network

51. Social Network

52. Social Network

53. I went from nothing
O
to social network in
G T F
seven minutes.
It would have taken five,
but I made a custom logo.

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

55. Job Board

56. Job Board

57. Job Board
Career Opportunities

58. Job Board
Alumni Opportunities

59. 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.

60. Classifieds

62. Classifieds
Garage Sale

63. Classifieds
Garage Sale

64. Classifieds Garage Sale

65. Classifieds Garage Sale

66. Classifieds Garage Sale

67. Event Calendar

68. Event Calendar
Event Calendar

69. Event Calendar
Event Calendar

70. Event Calendar
GigPress
http://gigpress.com
Easily customized
RSS & iCal feeds
Good for general events; GREAT for “regular”
performers / groups

71. Bug / Ticket
Tracking

72. Ticket Tracking
Quality Control

73. Ticket Tracking
Quality Control

74. Ticket Tracking
Quality Control

75. Ticket Tracking
Quality Control
http://getqualitycontrol.com/
Great for one-man shop
Currently can’t assign tickets
Tickets listed by creator

76. Write a book.

77. 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

78. Books

79. Books

80. Books

81. Books

82. Other Resources

83. Other Resources
WordPress: wordpress.org
Smashing Magazine
Six Revisions
WPMU Dev

84. #GTFO
Thank You!
Questions? Comments?
Tweet it up!
#GTFO
@mrichwalsky @jesselavery