Learning from libraries that use WordPress : content-management system best practices and case studies

Jones, Kyle M. L.

Book 2013

Explores 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 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. This useful book shows how scores of libraries hav...

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ISBN:

9780838911624
0838911625

Description:

xiv, 158 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index

Contents:

Multiple identities : for blogs, for CMSs, and so much more
Preparation, installation, and initial settings
Extensibility via plugins
Look and feel with themes
A better workflow
Safe, sound, tracked
Flexible design
Enhancing the user experience
Roll your own social network
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
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

LCCN:

2012010063

Control Number:

932793

Other Authors:

Farrington, Polly-Alida

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