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Presentation to WordUp Whitehall on 13 October 2010 by Jenny Poole (BIS) and Steph Gray (Helpful Technology) on the Commentariat2 WordPress theme, used in http://www.bis.gov.uk/growth
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Jenny Poole, Head of Digital Engagement
Twitter: @treepixie , email:[email protected]
WordPress: both sides of the story
Steph Gray, Helpful Technology
Twitter: @lesteph , email:[email protected]
My first html book …
Reminds me of a book
I owned as a child…
Refine policycrowdsourcingtest & develop policy ideas
consultation-public
comments-online surveys
decisionweb & social
media channels
Identify issues
analyse results
and data
policy analysis
foster policy Collaboration
online
implementmonitoringprogress.
evaluationgather evidence
sentiment analysis
Wordpress is a godsend…
But there’s some bits that still scare me…
A quick recap: 3 kinds of digital engagement *
Collaborative drafting and detailed commenting on a document
Crowdsourcing, reviewing and prioritising ideas
Ongoing engagement around a strategy
*all of which have been done at one time or other in WordPress
2008: CommentPress
2009: Commentariat 1.0
2010: The new brief
A WordPress theme for a new ‘hub’ to support engagement around a major new policy launch
1. Social & CMS functionality: blog, document download, comments, links, feeds, email alerts, tweets, embedded content
2. With a look-and-feel that can be tweaked and repurposed for future projects
3. By a non-technical team, without editing CSS, modifying theme files or installing WordPress
2010: Commentariat 2.0
2010: Commentariat 2.0
One theme to rule them all (well, sort of)
Three bits of magic: 1. Multisite
Three bits of magic: 2. Theme Options
Three bits of magic: 3. Widgets
Three bits of magic: (er) 4. Custom Menus
http://lgtransparency.readandcomment.com/
The next phase: Readandcomment.com
Commentariat 2.0 + plugins
Hosting, configuration + maintenance
As much support as clients need
+
+
WordPress 3.0 multisite
+
12 months, fixed price, standard T&Cs
The bits I’m not telling you
• Cut and paste is still f***ing boring
• An engaging site is a tiny piece of the puzzle
• Ultimately, it’s just a WordPress theme (you could achieve 90% of it on WordPress.com)
• It’s easier than building from scratch, but still…
• Not really grappled with GPL implications
• Working out if and how this scales
Worse still (actually, this stuff really is embarrassing)