WordPress in the Enterprise

WordCamp Portsmouth UKpresents

Here’s the panel…

Many thanks for additional material & contribution from Shaun Hare (@sdh100Shaun) Jon Eland (@strawbleu) Mark Wilkinson (@equalmark) Andy Gilpin (@andygilpin) Andy Robb (@androidrobb) Steph Gray (@lesteph)

Kimb Jones John Read Dave Coveney

Martin Beeby

John Adams

@mkjones @bluechives@davecoven

ey @thebeebs @johnthegeo

Key themes

1. How do people use WordPress within organisations?

2. What are the challenges of deploying WordPress within an organisation?

3. How can WordPress evolve to be more effective for internal use?

What is WordPress used for within organisations?Theme 1

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DFID: New Technology Forum

Screenshot of NTF

DFID/BIS: Tradewire

DFID: Accountability & Empowerment

Prototype

Major University: News & Blogs

WordPress Multisite 2 news sites:

staff/student 11 blogs (35 authors)

Major University: Tech stuff

Plugins Single sign-on – custom

plugin for both AD and LDAP

Widget to switch between staff & student

news services

Author comments Default Categories Wickett Twitter ProPlayer Video

Other examples….

Corporate Portal

(WordPress)

Division Portals(WordPress/Sharepoint 2010)

Projects and Workspaces(SharePoint) 2010

Personal(SharePoint 2010)

Tightly controlled, push content Spotlight, MoneySight, PeopleSight

Groups and Teams(Sharepoint 2010)

Division and Country pages

Teams and departments in divisionsEg E&A, Private Sector, RED, ISD etc

More loosely governedPush/Pull content

Eg HR Passport, divisional projects

Personalised view of inSight, corporate

reporting, email

Where does WordPress fit in?

Extranet

Acknowledgement: DFID based on an idea by CompanyNet

What are the challenges of introducing WordPress?Theme 2

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Technical challenges?

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Architecture choices

User authentication

Multi-site or single instances?

Essential plugins

IE6

Architecture choices

Externally hosted

Development

WAMPProduction

Windows Production

WordPress WordPress WordPress WordPress WordPress

Web Server ApachePHP XAMPP/

MS WebMatrix

ApachePHP

IISPHP

Database MySQL MySQL SQL Server

OS Linux Windows Windows Windows

Solutions in a Microsoft environment?

Authentication options

Option Authors Commenters Plugins

WordPress login Set up with WP user identity. Log in using WP username/pwd

Anonymous or type in name/email

Comments authentication

Set up with WP user identity. Assigns identity on corp directory lookup.

Looks up corp directory and assigns name/email automatically.

CommentsAuth plugin

Full AD integration

Automatically set up with WP user identity on first login. SSO thereafter

What are the best AD plugins?

Management challenges

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Roles management and assignment

Choice of themes?

Upgrade frequency – core & plugins

Support arrangements/contracts

People and culture challenges

Skills – developers & support

Culture to support effective use of WP

Does IT get it?

Executive interference

Making WordPress more effective in organisationsTheme 3

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How to be more effective?

How does WordPress need to change?

How can the enterprise change? What about the supplier

ecosystem?

Questions?

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