[wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering
James Groom
jimgroom at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 11:14:41 UTC 2009
Ken,
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:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgddjcmf_58frwkwjhp
Good luck with the WPMu.
Best,
Jim
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Luke Waltzer <Lucas.Waltzer at baruch.cuny.edu
> wrote:
> Hi Ken:
>
> I’m happy to share what we use on Blogs at 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.
>
> Best,
> Luke
>
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> ------------------------------
> *From: *"DeBlois, Kenneth" <Kenneth_DeBlois at brown.edu>
> *Reply-To: *<wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
> *Date: *Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:54:43 -0500
>
> *To: *<wp-edu at lists.automattic.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering
>
> Thanks Matthew (and Joseph),
>
> I found Joseph’s complete list of plug-ins to be very useful. Matthew, are
> you willing to share your list? Anyone else?
>
> Thanks!
> Ken
>
>
> *From:* wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com [
> mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com<wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *Muro, Matthew
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 16, 2009 2:40 PM
> *To:* wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
> *Subject:* Re: [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering
>
> Ken,
>
> · For sitemap generation, I would check out Google Sitemaps
> Generator <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/>
> . This is great, especially when you have thousands of links.
>
> · For SEO, many have recommended All in one SEO Pack <
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/> , though I have
> not personally used it.
>
> · Google has a plugin for Feedburner called FeedSmith <
> http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78483>
> which *may* do what you want. Again, I have not tested this myself.
>
> · 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 *my *needs. I ended up using
> MailChimp instead. If you need to stick with Wordpress, you can check out
> Subscribe2 <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/> , Mailpress <
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailpress/> , and Post Notification <
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/> .
>
>
> Good luck!
>
> *Matthew Muro
> *Web Developer
> UA Office of Web Communications
>
>
>
> *From:* wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com [
> mailto:wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com<wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *DeBlois, Kenneth
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:41 AM
> *To:* wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
> *Subject:* [wp-edu] Finalizing plug-ins for our Wordpress MU offering
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
> - Faculty as a teaching tool and a publishing platform to discuss
> there research
>
> - Student Organizations that want a blog instead of a website
>
> - Provide a web space for post-docs, graduate students, and others
> that want to discuss research online and want a simple publishing platform.
>
> - Administrative staff looking to share news, collaborate on
> projects, etc.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 1) Does anyone use buddypress (http://buddypress.org/) 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.
>
> 2) Do any of you have good plug-in recommendations for :
>
> a. Blog sitemap generation
>
> b. SEO improvements
>
> c. Connection to Feedburner
>
> d. Sending out an email that contains the post to any subscriber that
> has indicated they want an email.
>
>
>
> To give you a sense of some of the other plug-ins that we are playing with,
> here is our list thus far:
>
>
> So far we have these system wide:
> - Shibboleth for authentication
>
> - Simpler css – so blog owners can edit their CSS
>
> - cets_blog_defaults - provides a ton of default blog settings
>
> - Akismet – for spam
>
> - Bad Behavior – for spam and hacks
>
> - Supercache
>
> - Site-wide feed 1492758394_wpmufeed.php
>
> - Extra Private blog settings 999830698_ds_private_blog.php
>
>
> We allow blog admins to activate these plug-ins:
> - After The Deadline
>
> - article2pdf
>
> - Flickr Gallery
>
> - Grunion Contact Form
>
> - PollDaddy Polls
>
> - Popularity Contest
>
> - Shadowbox JS
>
> - ShareThis
>
> - SyntaxHighlighter Evolved
>
> - WP-PostRatings
>
> - WPtouch iPhone Theme
>
>
> Thank you for any feedback!
>
> Best,
> Ken
>
> Ken DeBlois
> Online Communication Specialist
> Brown WebServices
>
>
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