Multisite wp in education wc philly2011

Multisite wp in education wc philly2011

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  Multisite WP inEducation Implementing Wordpress MultiSite at Temple University through crowdsourcing
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  Speakers • Paul Muller,Senior Technical Support • Paul Paire, Exec Director Special Projects • Sheri Stahler, AVP for Computer Services
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  About Temple 9 5,000 39,000
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  How things were •Home grown web pages – No standards/policies – Difficult for the standard user to create/update – Static Web • Google Sites – Not on a ‘temple.edu’ domain – Limited functionality/restricted features
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  What we needed •Easy to use • Policies • LDAP authentication • Moderation of comments • Target audience – Faculty – Staff
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  Why Crowdsourcing? • Beyondthe buzzword • Quicker with help • Play to people’s strengths • Different points of view
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  What we created http://sites.temple.edu
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  Any problems? wp-includes/wp-db.php • Changemysql_connect() to mysql_pconnect() • Added a one time check to see if the connection is established, if not try one more time if ( !$this->dbh ) { if ( WP_DEBUG ) { $this->dbh = mysql_pconnect( $this->dbhost, $this->dbuser, $this->dbpas } else { $this->dbh = @mysql_pconnect( $this->dbhost, $this->dbuser, $this->dbp }
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  Alternate solution HyperDB • HyperDBis an advanced database class that supports replication, failover, load balancing, and partitioning.
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  User Management • LDAPIntegration – Automatically add users when they login • Site administrators add users from our LDAP, or existing users • Read-only if not affiliated with Temple
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  Plugins • Not allusers should have access to all plugins • Some plugins are site specific
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  Challenges of Control •All comments must be moderated • Users cannot change their passwords through profile, or standard WP process • Temple Branding on Personal Sites? • Sign up process changed significantly
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  Customized Plugins • MorePrivacy Options • Site Creation Wizard • Sidebar login • Superb Slideshow Gallery • LDAP • Custom plugin to avoid hacking core
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  Accessibility • Themes (i.e.Search boxes) • Plugins (i.e. Alt-Tags for images) • Wordpress core (i.e. Login forms) • User education (i.e. closed captioning for embedded videos)
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  Governance • Request processfor Plugins/Themes • Policies • Central Advisory Group
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  Bonus slides
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  Plugins available toall end users • amr events calendar or lists with ical files • Authors Widget • Blubrry PowerPress • Collapsing Categories • FD Feedburner Plugin • FeedWordPress • Galleria Galleria • Google Calendar Events • Gravity Forms • Importers (Wordpress, Blogger, etc.) • LaTex for Wordpress • Members • My Category Order • Peter’s Collaboration Emails • Sidebar Login • Sociable • WordPress SEO
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  Plugins we use(but not the public) • Exploit Scanner • Health Check • Login Logo • More Privacy Options • Restrict MultiSite Plugins • Simple LDAP Login • Site Creation Wizard • Superb slideshow gallery • Theme Info • Plugin Stats • WP Touch • YD WPMU Bloglist Widget • Custom written plugins (to avoid hacking core)
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  Functions of customwritten plugin • Replace Add User functions with Add LDAP User • Users cannot change password in profile • Password change requests go to our site • Hide Simple LDAP settings from site administrators • Site Admins cannot enable unmoderated or unauthenticated comments • Encode variables being passed through wp-login.php to wp- signup.php • Change ‘username’ to ‘AccessNet username’ on wp- login.php • Change styling & wording for the wp-signup.php steps