Learning from Libraries that Use WordPress: Content-Management System Best Practices and Case Studies--print/PDF e-book Bundle

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7700-1624

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2012

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Description
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Reviews

With its intuitive interface and open-source development method, the WordPress web platform has emerged as a uniquely flexible content management system (CMS) with many library-related applications. In this book Jones and Farrington, two web designer/librarians, explore the variety of ways libraries are implementing WordPress as a CMS, from simple "out-of-the-box" websites to large sites with many custom features. Emphasizing a library-specific perspective, the authors

Offer a brief history of WordPress, reviewing its genesis and sketching in some possible future directions
Analyze the software's strengths and weaknesses, spotlighting its advantages over other existing web publishing platforms as well as discussing the limitations libraries have encountered
Present a variety of case studies, offering first-hand examples which detail why WordPress was selected, methods of implementation and degree of customization, feedback from users, and reflections on usability
Discuss essential plug-ins, themes, and other specialized applications for library sites

This useful book shows how scores of libraries have used WordPress to create library websites that are both user-friendly and easy to maintain.

Foreword, by Michael Stephens

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I Getting Started with WordPress

1 Multiple Identities: For Blogs, for CMSs, and So Much More

2 Preparation, Installation, and Initial Settings

Part II Full-On Customization with Themes and Plugins

3 Extensibility via Plugins

4 Look and Feel with Themes

Part III WordPress Cookbooks: Tips, Tricks, and Plugins

5 A Better Workflow

6 Safe, Sound, Tracked

7 Flexible Design

8 Enhancing the User Experience

9 Roll Your Own Social Network

Part IV Guest Pieces

Creating Dynamic Subject Guides, by Laura Slavin and Joshua Dodson

First-Year Seminar Blogs, by Jacob Hill and Peg Cook

BuddyPress and Higher Education, by Michael Stephens and Kenley Neufeld

From LibGuides to WordPress, by Paul Boger

Creating Digital Archives with WordPress, by Kelli Bogan

Ten Ways WordPress Can Improve Website User Experience, by Aaron Schmidt and Amanda Etches-Johnson

Using WordPress to Create a Virtual School Library, by Anne Robinson

Many Websites, One Installation: Blogging with WordPress MU at Skokie Public Library, by Mick Jacobsen and Toby Greenwalt

Kansas Libraries on the Web, by Liz Rea

Resources

Index

Kyle M. L. Jones

Kyle M. L. Jones is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the School of Library and Information Studies, where his research interests are focused on e-learning informatics, traditional and non-traditional online learning environments, and digital library technologies.

Polly-Alida Farrington

Polly-Alida Farrington is a former academic librarian with 17 years' experience in reference, government documents, ILL, and technology. Since 1996, as principal of PA Farrington Associates, she has offered technology-related training, web project development, and consulting services to libraries, library systems, and schools.

"Although this book discusses how to get started with WordPress, it goes on to provide much more for advanced readers (including code snippets!) than most books on the topic. There's a fantastic and detailed discussion of widgets and plugins with plenty of screenshots, advice on setting up a workflow structure for content creation through plugins, and even instructions for how to set up child themes! ... This is a must-read for any librarian setting up a WordPress site."

--OEDb

"The authors have extensive technology and web-management backgrounds and are also experienced trainers. This is reflected in the content, which is both highly relevant and easy to understand. A librarian could pick up this manual and use it to set up a basic WordPress site without needing specialist technical knowledge … this is a highly recommended guide to implementing WordPress. It is a handy manual for a WordPress (or potential WordPress) administrator to keep on a nearby shelf for reference."
--Australian Library Journal

"Includes easy-to-follow screen shots … Should be read by anyone in the library field who is considering WordPress as a CMS or is in the beginning stages of implementing it "
— Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

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