WordPress user roles
There are five user roles in WordPress with different levels of access. Depending on the user, you may not want to give them full access to your blog. Read about the different abilities of each user so that you can…
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Why we are outsourcing WordPress
One project that we are currently preparing (called DC1004 WordPress multisite) will involve outsourcing our WordPress multisite installation. This post explains why. At the University we use TerminalFour Site Manager…
Taming an intranet
How to stop your WordPress intranet becoming an unmanageable mess Our web developer Sam Parsons brought our attention to this article about intranets. Although the article is primarily aimed at WordPress developers,…
New default WordPress theme: Fourteen Eleven
With the increase in mobile devices accessing the University website, I’ve spent a couple of hours this week working on a St Andrews themed responsive WordPress theme for our central WordPress multi site installation,…
Using colour schemes to easily distinguish between live and test installations of WordPress
When the web team took on management of the University’s WordPress multi site installation we actually inherited two instances: live and test. Working with two almost identical installations I discovered a sense of…
New website for the Writing Room at St Andrews
A few weeks ago the web team had a visit from Jonathan Falla, a local award-winning author and course leader for both the Creative Writing Summer School and now The Writing Room at St Andrews. It was about the latter…
New website for the Andrew Marvell Society
While the majority of our work in the web team involves developing and maintaining the main University website, using our enterprise content management system TERMINALFOUR Site Manager we do occasionally get asked to…
A few highlights from IWMW 2010
A couple of weeks ago I attended my fourth Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2010), which this year took place at the University of Sheffield. (Twitter tag: #iwmw10) The event provides an opportunity for…