Ken,<br><br>I have ave an actual outlin of issues in a Google doc that I used when talkign to the folks at Duke University about their WPMu pilot, there is some plugins, discussions of hyperdb, etc. It may be useful for you:<br>
<br><a id="publishedDocumentUrl" class="tabcontent" target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgddjcmf_58frwkwjhp">http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgddjcmf_58frwkwjhp</a><br><br>Good luck with the WPMu.<br><br>Best,<br>
Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Luke Waltzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lucas.Waltzer@baruch.cuny.edu">Lucas.Waltzer@baruch.cuny.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hi Ken:<br>
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I’m happy to share what we use on Blogs@Baruch, but I probably can’t get to writing it up until next week. If it slips my mind, feel free to shoot me an email to remind me. <br>
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Best,<br>
Luke<br>
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<hr align="CENTER" width="95%" size="3"><b>From: </b>"DeBlois, Kenneth" <<a href="http://Kenneth_DeBlois@brown.edu" target="_blank">Kenneth_DeBlois@brown.edu</a>><br>
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<b>Date: </b>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:54:43 -0500<div class="im"><br>
<b>To: </b><<a href="http://wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering<br>
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<font color="#1f497d">Thanks Matthew (and Joseph),<br>
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I found Joseph’s complete list of plug-ins to be very useful. Matthew, are you willing to share your list? Anyone else?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Ken<br>
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</div></span></font><div class="im"><font size="2"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>From:</b> <a href="http://wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Muro, Matthew<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:40 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering<br>
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<font color="#1f497d">Ken,<br>
<br>
</font></span></font></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#1f497d"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">For sitemap generation, I would check out Google Sitemaps Generator <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/</a>> . This is great, especially when you have thousands of links.<br>
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</font><font color="#1f497d"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">For SEO, many have recommended All in one SEO Pack <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/</a>> , though I have not personally used it.<br>
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</font><font color="#1f497d"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Google has a plugin for Feedburner called FeedSmith <<a href="http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483</a>> which <i>may</i> do what you want. Again, I have not tested this myself.<br>
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</font><font color="#1f497d"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">When it comes to the email, however, it’s a little harder to find something. It all depends on how much control you want. I have tested just about all of the email subscription plugins out there and while some work better than others, they never fully met <i>my </i>needs. I ended up using MailChimp instead. If you need to stick with Wordpress, you can check out Subscribe2 <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/</a>> , Mailpress <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/</a>> , and Post Notification <<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/</a>> .<br>
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Good luck!<br>
<br>
</font></font></span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Matthew Muro<br>
</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Web Developer<br>
UA Office of Web Communications<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>From:</b> <a href="http://wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a> [<a href="mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>DeBlois, Kenneth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="http://wp-edu@lists.automattic.com" target="_blank">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering<br>
</span></font></font></div></div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><div><div></div><div class="h5"> <br>
Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
I haven’t received a post from this list in a while. I’m hopeful that I’ll get some help from the folks out there.<br>
<br>
We’re in the middle of a pilot of Wordpress MU and getting ready to launch a full service. Our goal is to provide a blogging platform to be used by:<br>
- Faculty as a teaching tool and a publishing platform to discuss there research<br>
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- Student Organizations that want a blog instead of a website<br>
<br>
- Provide a web space for post-docs, graduate students, and others that want to discuss research online and want a simple publishing platform.<br>
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- Administrative staff looking to share news, collaborate on projects, etc.<br>
<br>
<br>
I’m working to get a solid set of plug-ins to meet the needs of our audiences and I wanted to check in with folks about plug-ins.<br>
<br>
1) Does anyone use buddypress (<a href="http://buddypress.org/" target="_blank">http://buddypress.org/</a>) I’m trying to determine if it has value in our environment. I’d love to know if other colleges/universities have considered using it and what they’ve decided.<br>
<br>
2) Do any of you have good plug-in recommendations for :<br>
<br>
a. Blog sitemap generation<br>
<br>
b. SEO improvements<br>
<br>
c. Connection to Feedburner<br>
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d. Sending out an email that contains the post to any subscriber that has indicated they want an email.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
To give you a sense of some of the other plug-ins that we are playing with, here is our list thus far:<br>
<br>
<br>
So far we have these system wide:<br>
- Shibboleth for authentication<br>
<br>
- Simpler css – so blog owners can edit their CSS<br>
<br>
- cets_blog_defaults - provides a ton of default blog settings<br>
<br>
- Akismet – for spam<br>
<br>
- Bad Behavior – for spam and hacks<br>
<br>
- Supercache<br>
<br>
- Site-wide feed 1492758394_wpmufeed.php<br>
<br>
- Extra Private blog settings 999830698_ds_private_blog.php<br>
<br>
<br>
We allow blog admins to activate these plug-ins:<br>
- After The Deadline<br>
<br>
- article2pdf<br>
<br>
- Flickr Gallery<br>
<br>
- Grunion Contact Form<br>
<br>
- PollDaddy Polls<br>
<br>
- Popularity Contest<br>
<br>
- Shadowbox JS<br>
<br>
- ShareThis<br>
<br>
- SyntaxHighlighter Evolved<br>
<br>
- WP-PostRatings<br>
<br>
- WPtouch iPhone Theme<br>
<br>
<br>
Thank you for any feedback!<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Ken<br>
<br>
Ken DeBlois<br>
Online Communication Specialist<br>
Brown WebServices<br>
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