Enterprise Sites; Small Business Resources

Who Am I?

Curtiss[1]

Senior Web Technologist

University of Mary Washington

@cgrymala

Curtiss[1]

  • In charge of all development on the UMW website
  • Manage multi-network instance and multisite instances of WordPress for UMW
  • Freelance for various small businesses, colleges & universities, and non-profits
  • Evangelize WordPress

UMW Website:

  • Top-level sites: 36 sites in multisite network; ~75 active plugins
  • Other sites: ~60 separate networks in multi-network install; ~300 total sites; 104 separate active plugins
  • >30,000 published pieces of content
  • ~10,000 published posts & ~10,000 published pages
  • ~40,000 total attachments

UMWBlogs*

Domain of One’s Own*

* – Managed by the TLT office

Background on WordPress

Information about WordPress and its Usage

WordPress is used by 58.9% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 26.7% of all websites.

– W3Techs

WordPress Download Stats - Oct. 6, 2016

WordPress in Higher Ed

Used at many institutions for many different purposes

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Identify Resources

  • How much money do you have to spend?
  • How much time do you have?
  • How many people do you have?
    • Developers
    • Designers
    • Content managers
    • Project managers

Plan

  • Architecture
  • Support process
  • Content Strategy
  • Design & usability process

Prioritize

  • What needs to be done now?
  • What can wait?
  • Where will you spend your money?
  • What can you do yourself?
  • What can you have others do?

Distribute

  • Manage expectations
  • Delegate tasks
  • Spend where it makes sense
  • Outsource where appropriate

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Questions?

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More Resources

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