WordPress as a (Non-Sucky) Web Portal / Intranet

This session will focus on using WordPress for an Intranet. Trimble has designed and implemented a web portal for the Member Agencies of the Greater Cleveland Food Bank using WordPress. The agencies use this web portal to submit paperwork (gravityforms, duh!), to stay up to date, to check the Food Bank’s inventory for ordering, to interact with one another and more. The end-user is typically not a ‘digital native,’ so steps were taken to keep things super clean and easy to use. We have more than 1,000 users in our portal, which is a multi-site environment with four sites. A number of Food Bank staff contribute to different sections, as well. It is running 37 plugins, among which you will find the likes of S2Member, WP Supercache, GravityForms, BBPress, LearnDash LMS, Tablepress and The Events Calendar (modern tribe). Trimble will talk about implementing a system like this and how they engaged a non-tech audience (e.g. We led them to water kicking and screaming and now they LOVE TO DRINK IT). He will also discuss multi-site, LearnDash LMS, and s2Member and touch upon the ever important “WordPress isn’t just blogging …” topic. We have received a ton of great feedback from our member agencies who use this on a daily basis and have also fielded inquiries and interest from other Food Banks around the country, including Columbus’ Mid-Ohio Food Bank. Since the site is predominantly locked down, you can create a username here, so poke around. Please use “WordCamp” as your agency name so I know you’re legit! http://portal.clevelandfoodbank.org/register/