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Building an Academic Library Website in WordPress
This document provides recommendations and resources for building an academic library website using WordPress. It suggests hosting platforms priced between $9-99 per month and lists themes and plugins that could be useful, including for Akismet, Google Analytics, and media library assistance. Guidelines are also referenced for establishing building policies at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Building an Academic Library Website in WordPress
- 1. Building an AcademicLibrary Website inWordPress Chad Haefele Interim Head of User Experience UNC Chapel Hill Libraries cHaefele@email.unc.edu HiddenPeanuts.com
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- 7. Hosting options •Dreamhost.com -$9/month •Wpengine.com - $99/month •Asmallorange.com - $10/month
- 12. Theme Resources •WordPress.org/themes/ •ThemeForest.net/ •Read thetheme’s documentation!
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- 22. Plugin Resources •WordPress.org/plugins/ •http://codecanyon.net/category/wordpress •Read theplugin’s documentation!
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Editor's Notes
- #4 My history with WP
- #5 This is where we used to be, pre-CMS
- #6 .com – good first playground
- #7 .org – the real deal
- #9 What do I like about WP? It’s so flexible – beginners can use it, advanced users can do really really cool stuff. Also the community, more than a decade old.
- #12 Responsive themes!
- #14 Jackson District Library, Jackson County, MI
- #16 VLA
- #17 Durham County Public Library
- #18 Plugins – what are they?
- #19 Formidable
- #20 Akismet
- #21 GA by Yoast, etc.
- #22 Media Library Assistant
- #23 42,120+ plugins
- #24 Shortcodes put the content management in content management system. Text between brackets automatically displays a pre-set chunk of content.
- #25 Shortcodes put the content management in content management system. Text between brackets automatically displays a pre-set chunk of content.
- #26 Future of WP