Getting SchooledCreating Your School Website with WordPress

homework sites

learning management systems

student or teacher blogs

informational sites

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Before you Begin

know your audience

parents

students

staff

community

donors

alumni

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Consider who the site is actually for; is it for the

parents, the teachers, or the students? Then

direct your homepage content to that audience.

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The content quandary

Schools are content beasts

and everyone wants to be on the

home page in main navigation.

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Your school story is about your entire

community, not just one group.

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about

admissions or enrollment

academics

alumni relations

athletics

student life

news

philanthropy and support

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Tools to up your game

multisite

Multisite = Many Sites on One Install

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A Multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same

WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The

individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they

do not have their own directories on your server, although they do

have separate directories for media uploads within the shared

installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.

WordPress Codex

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share plugins

each site can have its own theme or look

update once across the network

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—Subdomain—

athletics.yourschoolsite.org

—Subdirectories—

yourschoolsite.org/athletics

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Multisite can better organize your site and

prevent information overload for your user.

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athletics.yourschoolsite.org

alumni.yourschoolsite.org

donate.yourschoolsite.org

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plugins

a form plugin

a calendar plugin

a custom field plugin

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All . The . Time .

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tips

join a meetup.

find a great developer.

pay them well.

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RESOURCES

Multisitehttps://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-multisite-masterclass-getting-started/

Learning Management Systemshttp://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-create-a-school-website-with-wordpress

Thank you!

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