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WordPress in the Enterprise
WordCamp Portsmouth UKpresents
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Here’s the panel…
Many thanks for additional material & contribution from Shaun Hare (@sdh100Shaun) Jon Eland (@strawbleu) Mark Wilkinson (@equalmark) Andy Gilpin (@andygilpin) Andy Robb (@androidrobb) Steph Gray (@lesteph)
Kimb Jones John Read Dave Coveney
Martin Beeby
John Adams
@mkjones @bluechives@davecoven
ey @thebeebs @johnthegeo
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Key themes
1. How do people use WordPress within organisations?
2. What are the challenges of deploying WordPress within an organisation?
3. How can WordPress evolve to be more effective for internal use?
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What is WordPress used for within organisations?Theme 1
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DFID: New Technology Forum
Screenshot of NTF
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DFID/BIS: Tradewire
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DFID: Accountability & Empowerment
Prototype
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Major University: News & Blogs
WordPress Multisite 2 news sites:
staff/student 11 blogs (35 authors)
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Major University: Tech stuff
Plugins Single sign-on – custom
plugin for both AD and LDAP
Widget to switch between staff & student
news services
Author comments Default Categories Wickett Twitter ProPlayer Video
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Other examples….
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Corporate Portal
(WordPress)
Division Portals(WordPress/Sharepoint 2010)
Projects and Workspaces(SharePoint) 2010
Personal(SharePoint 2010)
Tightly controlled, push content Spotlight, MoneySight, PeopleSight
Groups and Teams(Sharepoint 2010)
Division and Country pages
Teams and departments in divisionsEg E&A, Private Sector, RED, ISD etc
More loosely governedPush/Pull content
Eg HR Passport, divisional projects
Personalised view of inSight, corporate
reporting, email
Where does WordPress fit in?
Extranet
Acknowledgement: DFID based on an idea by CompanyNet
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What are the challenges of introducing WordPress?Theme 2
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Technical challenges?
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Architecture choices
User authentication
Multi-site or single instances?
Essential plugins
IE6
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Architecture choices
Externally hosted
Development
WAMPProduction
Windows Production
WordPress WordPress WordPress WordPress WordPress
Web Server ApachePHP XAMPP/
MS WebMatrix
ApachePHP
IISPHP
Database MySQL MySQL SQL Server
OS Linux Windows Windows Windows
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Solutions in a Microsoft environment?
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Authentication options
Option Authors Commenters Plugins
WordPress login Set up with WP user identity. Log in using WP username/pwd
Anonymous or type in name/email
Comments authentication
Set up with WP user identity. Assigns identity on corp directory lookup.
Looks up corp directory and assigns name/email automatically.
CommentsAuth plugin
Full AD integration
Automatically set up with WP user identity on first login. SSO thereafter
What are the best AD plugins?
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Management challenges
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Roles management and assignment
Choice of themes?
Upgrade frequency – core & plugins
Support arrangements/contracts
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People and culture challenges
Skills – developers & support
Culture to support effective use of WP
Does IT get it?
Executive interference
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Making WordPress more effective in organisationsTheme 3
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How to be more effective?
How does WordPress need to change?
How can the enterprise change? What about the supplier
ecosystem?
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Questions?
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