This is the original presentation I'm giving at the WordPress Houston Meetup on 6/27/2011 about using WordPress as a CMS with help from select plugins. We've been using WordPress at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston since 2009 for various projects and will begin to migrate the main UT Medical School website over to WordPress Multisite in late summer 2011.
2. ABOUT EricRasch
ERIC RASCH since 2003
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3. PLUGINS... BY top 5 most popular... probably:
All in One SEO Pack
THE NUMBERS 8,081,370 downloads; seo
Google XML Sitemaps
14,949 total plugins in the 5,338,513 downloads; seo
repository @ WordPress.org
Akismet
6,974,351 downloads; security
Contact Form 7
4,131,953 downloads; form
NextGEN Gallery
3,415,754 times; media
5. STARTING WITH A PLUGIN CORE SET
(most of these make it into each site I develop)
Akismet More Fields
Analytics360 More Taxonomies for Multisite
Broken Link Checker More Types Google XML Sitemaps
BulletProof Security Scissors Continued with Multisite support
DBC Backup Search Everything Remove /blog slug
Duplicate Post Search Meter plugin for WPMU
Enable Media Replace Secure WordPress
Google Analytics (Yoast) SEO Ultimate for Theme Development
Google XML Sitemaps W3 Total Cache AskApache What Is This
Gravity Forms WordPress SEO (Yoast) Convert Post Types
+ MailChimp Add-On WordPress Ultimate Security
Simply Show IDs
+ User Registration WP-Optimize Theme-Check
Jetpack WP Smush.it
7. 98.6 DEGREES top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Broken Link Checker
BLOG Google Analytics (Yoast)
14
plugins
19
Posts
8
Pages
SEO Ultimate
A blog? You lied! I know but
it’s a great site. The killer
thing about this site is it
only took 30 minutes to train
Dr. King (2 years ago) on
how to keep it updated.
8. DIAGNOSTIC top 3 plugins that made a difference:
AZIndex
IMAGING Duplicate Post
16
plugins
68
Posts
31
Pages
Import HTML
This site redesign needed a
good scrubbing. Import HTML
did the heavy lifting, WP
handled the pretty
permalinks (and a whole lot
more), and AZIndex made
the faculty list easy-peasy.
9. DII ONLINE top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Gravity Forms
CONSULT + User Registration Add-On
16
plugins
2
Posts
26
Pages
+ FreshBooks Add-On
Gravity Forms really made
this site pull together. With
the User Registration and
FreshBooks add-ons, GF
provided a round-trip
ordering experience for the
user.
10. IBP RESERVATION top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Booking Calendar
SYSTEM BuddyPress
30
plugins
1
Posts
9
Pages
Gravity Forms
The Department of
Integrative Biology needed a
way to register users, verify
credentials, and reserve
equipment rentals.
11. ORL / ENT top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Gravity Forms
NEWSLETTERS MailChimp Add-On
Analytics360
38 202 4
plugins Posts Pages More Types
Dr. Citardi publishes 2 email
newsletters. He wanted an
easy way to maintain the
content types and signup
users. MailChimp’s
Analytics360 helped keep a
close watch on the action.
12. ARC top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Gravity Forms PayPal Add-On
COURSE Gravity Forms
User Registration Add-On
24 0 11
plugins Posts Pages WordPress HTTPS
A simple site for giving
potential attendees a way to
get information, signup for
newsletter updates, and
register for upcoming
courses. Gravity Forms to the
rescue.
13. ORL FRONTIERS top 3 plugins that made a difference:
CMS Tree Page View
COURSE MapPress Easy
Google Maps
24 0 8
plugins Posts Pages W3 Total Cache
Dr. Citardi wanted to keep
his course registrations
websites separate, but still
have the capabilities with a
slightly different look. Child
Themes made it a quick &
easy turnaround.
14. UT top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Magic Fields
PHYSICIANS WP Custom Search
41
plugins
930
Posts
35
Pages
Redirection
Long before Custom Post
Types, Magic Fields gave us a
way customize profiles for
our physicians. WP Custom
Search gave us a way for
them to be found.
15. UT top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Import HTML
MIST WordPress SEO (Yoast)
27
plugins
12
Posts
36
Pages
Viper's Video Quicktags
Another static site needing a
cleanup with a strong way to
maintain and enhance their
current SEO efforts.
WordPress provided a built-
in way for multiple parties to
keep the site rolling.
16. JOHN RITTER top 3 plugins that made a difference:
Search Meter
RESEARCH Gravity Forms
MailChimp Add-On
26 21 15
plugins Posts Pages WP No Category Base
Quick build, rapid
turnaround, lasting results.
Within 9 days we had this
site launched and ready to
spread-the-word.
18. REBUILDING A Types of sites...
Departments/Offices/Centers
MEDICAL SCHOOL Campaigns
Newsletters
Faculty profiles
2011 will reveal big changes Labs
with the UT Med School’s
websites, as we convert from Plugins to help...
static sites to Multisite. Duplicator
Networks for WordPress
Add Clone Sites for WPMU (batch)
Site Creation Wizard
Social Metrics
Content Scheduler
Post Revision Workflow