Concurrent Sessions

Using WordPress Mu to Manage your Web Presence

Mon 3:35 – 4:20PM — Chestnut B
Sarah Barnes, WVU Office of Information Technology
Aisha Myers, WVU Office of Information Technology

The WVU Office of Information Technology has been working to implement WordPress Multiuser as a content management system. We are transitioning from a static html driven website using Dreamweaver and Contribute. Currently we have about 18 content managers and have been looking for a more integrated approach to managing content, design, and user access. This session will go over why we chose to take a chance on WordPress Mu over other web CMSes and what we’ve learned from the process.
This presentation will review what our organization’s needs were and how WPMU fit our requirements. We will cover the technical aspects of the project (system requirements, etc). We will discuss plugins we use to fill in capabilities that the system did not have out of the box. We will discuss how we approached managing the content for our disparate units. Finally we will discuss areas where this wCMS needs work and what we’d like to see changed.
If we have time we will try to compare this with other CMSes.
Objectives:
• Attendees will come away from the presentation with a better understanding of WordPress’s capabilities.
• Attendees will be armed with a case study in using this platform as a large-scale content management system.
• Attendees will be able to find out how we achieved this from a technical standpoint.


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