wordpress for govt blogs & microsites

Kristy Fifelski | City of Reno, Nevada

WordPressfor Government Blogs & Microsites

Agenda

• Tour of WordPress Sites

• Use in Government

• Installation Demo

• Plugins

• Themes

WordPressopen source blogging software

Why do I ?

Wow…

Top 5 reasonsto use WordPress for government sites

5. Vendor assistance not required

Top 5 reasonsto use WordPress for government sites

4. You get to tell management the site will be up in 2-3 months…. knowing it will only take 25 minutes

Top 5 reasonsto use WordPress for government sites

3. Using those extra months you saved, you can work on all the projects that you’ve been meaning to get to

Top 5 reasonsto use WordPress for government sites

2. Web designers can impersonate developers … and developers can impersonate web designers

Top 5 reasonsto use WordPress for government sites

1. It’s so easy…even he can do it

Slogan /image from GEICO ad campaign

WordPress is everywhere…

Customize high quality websites without being a developer…

British Prime Minister site

OpenSF blog (San Francisco)

RecoverySF microsite

City of Reno blog

Important WebsitesWordPress.comWordPress.orgCodex.wordpress.org

3 Ways to Host WordPress

1. On WordPress.com

2. In-house on your own server

PHP version 4.3 +

MySQL version 4.1.2 +

3. 3rd party host

Hosted Installation

1. Sign up for a hosted account at

1and1, Bluehost, GoDaddy, etc.

2. Login, locate WordPress install area.

3. Simple as clicking a couple buttons!

Hosted Installation

1. Create an admin login during

installation

2. Go to the WordPress admin area to

complete the rest of setup:

www.yoursite.com/wp-admin

WordPress admin area

Demo of Installation

Working with plugins

Customizing themes

Elements of WordPress sites

Microsite for city government “task force”

index.php

header.php

sidebar.php

footer.php

loop.php

Displays posts and post content

codex.wordpress.org

Free theme @ govfresh.com/wordpress

Theme template

City of Manor, TX

Contact Information

Kristy FifelskiWeb Services ManagerCity of Reno, Nevadafifelskik@reno.gov775-785-5818

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