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Welcome to 2016 NTC WordPress Day
Welcome to 2016 NTC WordPress Day
Tracks & Rooms
Site AdministratorsROOM 210D
DevelopersROOM 212A
Strategists & Organizational ManagementROOM 210C
Sessions
• Consult your bookmark
• Mobile-friendly: wordpressday.org
• Session slides will be online after today
#16ntcwp
Happiness Bar
• Meet with a WordPress Expert
• Troubleshoot problems
• Ask about WordPress best practices
• Staffed 10 am – 4 pm
Lunch & Coffee Breaks
• Coffee and Tea available in the back of this room all day
• Lunch is joint with Drupal and Salesforce Pre-Conferences at Salon 1 at the Marriott
• Great opportunities to network with other folks using WordPress
Happy Hour Tonight!
4:30 – 6:00Billy Berk’s99 S. 1st.San Jose, CA 95113
Find Ira or Lesley for drink tickets
Sponsors: Administrators
Sponsors: Editors & Authors
Cornershop Creative
About Cornershop Creative
• Distributed team, founded in 2012
• Focused on nonprofits and WordPress
• Clients include Orion Magazine, League of Women Voters, and Our Bodies Ourselves
• Organizers of WordPress Day!
WordPress & Nonprofits: The Perfect Fit
Quick Poll
Who here:
• Currently manages a WP site?
• Has managed WP site in the past?
• Is looking to migrate to WP?
• Thought this was Drupal Day?
WordPress Popularity
• Powers 26% of the top 10,000 websites in the world
• Half of all websites running a CMS run WordPress
Who’s Using It?
One hosting provider served 2.8 billion pageviews last month
The most popular…for good reason
• Easy to use
• Highly functional & extensible
• Scalable & performant
• Secure
• Lower cost
• Supported by a global community
But you know that
Amazing for Nonprofits• Community of Support
• Low cost of ownership
• Mobile friendly
• Amazing themes
• Cool plugins
• Available integrations
• Multisite capabilities
Community
In 2015, there were:
• 90 officially-sanctioned WordCamps, gathering 21,000 people
• More than 2,000 meetups, attended by more than 40,000 people
• Doesn’t even include WordPress Day!
Low Cost of Ownership
• Less costly to develop: under the hood, architecture is consistent across sites
• Don’t have to rebuild with every major release, every few years
• Ubiquity: You’ll always find a developer who can work on your site
Updates on the Go!
Themes
• Hundreds of themes
• Some designed specifically for nonprofits
• May have built-in support for campaigns, events, donations, community building, and more
Peak
https://colorlib.com/out/chpeak
Charitas / Foundation
https://colorlib.com/out/charitas
Philanthropy
http://themeforest.net/item/philanthropy-nonprofit-wordpress-theme/9139991
Fun with Plugins
The Divi Builder
http://www.elegantthemes.com/plugins/divi-builder
Social Stream
http://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-social-stream/2201708
Widget Menuizer
• Create more dynamic and engaging menus
• Anything you can put in a widget can now be in a menu*
https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-menuizer/
Media Deduper• Find and eliminate
duplicate files in your media library
• Prevent future duplicate uploads
• New version soon: Delete duplicates, but preserve Featured Images
https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post
Photo Contest
• Add a photo contest to your site
• Customizable voting frequency, image uploads and approvals, resizing images, admin notification
• Run multiple contests at once
http://codecanyon.net/item/photo-contest-wordpress-plugin/8320636
BBPress
Create dynamic and interactive forums
https://bbpress.org
Functionality: Integration
WordPress is so ubiquitous that major providers offer integration
(or risk losing customers!)
That’s Just a Taste
More amazing sessions today on how nonprofits can work with WordPress:
• WordPress 101
• Content strategy
• Leveraging Multisite
• Social Media best practices
Thanks!
@cornershop
cornershopcreative.com