We have been using WordPress as content management system Warwickshire County Council for the last two years.
In this talk I share challenges faced and lessons we have learn in this process beginning with the outcomes of a design review we carried out last year.
The talk touches on points such as:
Agile working
User centered design
WordPress as a CMS for local government
2. Wordpress within WCC
In 2013 we migrated our main site to
Wordpress
Have used wordpress.com for corporate blogs
Wordpress powers our mini-sites
3. Wordpress Mini-Sites
Heritage and Culture
http://heritage.warwickshire.gov.uk/
Warwickshire News
http://news.warwickshire.gov.uk/
Country Parks
http://countryparks.warwickshire.gov.uk/
4. The design review
Overall design refresh
Reviewing features that were causing usability
problems
Rolling out new features
5. Existing challenges
Header / search bar styling issues on mobile
Secondary navigation issues on mobile
Gradient boxes needed reviewing
6. Possible improvements
Creating a more visually attractive customer
centered page template
Improving the look and feel of our navigation
pages
7. Implementation
Run two development workshops
Review of primary navigation/branding and
search box styling
Gradually removing secondary navigation
Rolling out of flat design/lighter fonts
15. Lessons learned
Know you frameworks & how much you can
push them out of the box
Always design in the browser
Use analytics / usability testing to drive
development/design
Launch/monitor & iterate based on customer
feedback
Set the rules of the game in writing
16. Useful plugins
Co author plus
User role editor
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