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Using WordPress to power your non-profit website Presentation by Jason King at Making Links 2008

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Using WordPress to power your non-profit websitePresentation by Jason King at Making Links 2008

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You shouldn’t have to rely on a web designer to make content changes

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Nor do you need to learn web design

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Take control of your own website

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WordPress started out as a very good blogging tool…

• Posts

• Ordered by date

• Archived by month and year

• Organised by category

• Performs well in search engines e.g. Google

• RSS feed

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…and evolved into a capable content management system

• Pages can be structured in a hierarchy

• Plugins add new functionality

• Customisable themes and templates

• Built using popular technologies

• Categorisation of content

• Upload documents as well as images

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Why is WordPress a good CMS choice for a non-profit?

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It’s free

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It’s open source

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It’s built on popular, tried and tested technologies

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It’s evolving.

New versions are published regularly, bringing improvements to functionality and ease of use

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Simplicity. Anyone can use it

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Documentation is better than many other open source CMS

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It’s very popular

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The WordPress forums have an active community of users

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WordPress is very flexible.

Take a look at these non-profit organisations’ websites to see how different they are in content, layout and design…

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Children’s Rights

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Too Young to Work

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Greek Care

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Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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What can you do in WordPress?• Publish your news immediately

• Or schedule your announcements

• Create and rearrange pages

• Maintain a links page

• Categorise your pages, posts and links

• Publish a photo gallery

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Just for practice, you could get a free account with www.wordpress.com

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Host WordPress on your webspace

• Download from www.wordpress.org and upload files by FTP.

• Your hosting provider must offer PHP and MySQL technologies.

• Some web hosting comes with one-click installation of WordPress (but check you’re getting the latest version)

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The famous “five minute installation”

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Despite the WordPress boast, installation takes more like an hour (halve that if you’ve done it before). But that’s still pretty quick!

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If you’re not confident, pay someone or get a volunteer to install WordPress for you

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You’ll need to install upgrades

•WordPress is regularly improved, made more secure and new features added.

•So upgrade several times a year.

•Plugins also have to be upgraded but that’s a quicker, one-click task.

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Get a new look with a new theme

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Download a free or paid-for theme

• Do you want a theme for a blog?

• Or a CMS type theme?

• Or a magazine style theme?

• Download free themes from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

• You can also buy themes

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Design your own theme

• If you can write semantic, standards-compliant XHTML and CSS… then you can learn to create a WordPress theme

• There are lessons in the Codex

• There are many tutorials on the web

• Get help from the WordPress forums

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The motto of

WordPress is that: Code is

Poetry

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<p>The motto of <cite>

WordPress </cite>

is that: </p>

<blockquote> Code is Poetry </blockquote>

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Hire a WordPress designer

•Make sure your web designer has had WordPress experience

•They should be able to create a theme from scratch, not just take the default Kubrick theme and change the header graphic

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You get what you pay for

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Want more functionality?

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A few plugins that make WordPress a better CMS

• Search Everything - pages can be searched

• SEM Search Reoaded - better search results

• Breadcrumbs Nav XT - breadcrumb navigation

• Dagon Design SiteMap - adds a sitemap

• cForms - insert forms

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Resources

• www.wordpress.org

• www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/15/wordpress-developers-toolbox

• www.wordcamp.com.au

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WordCamp Australia

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WordPress for Dummies

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Alternatives to WordPress

• Blogger (if all you want is a blog)• Joomla (popular CMS, well supported)• Drupal (very complex, very flexible

CMS)• Adobe Contribute (software for

directly editing HTML on an existing static website)

• Many, many others!

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