WordPress for Schools

I recently replaced a proprietary SaaS CMS for the largest school district in the state (Newark, NJ). We launched our 70+ schools sites on Aug 29, 2014 on top of WordPress. Our district site is 30,000 pages and 300,000+ media assets. In the end, we cut our annual web site management budget in half and have beautiful new web sites powered by WordPress that ease the pain points our content owners, administrators and technology coordinators have when managing their school web sites. This presentation will cover how this was achieved using WordPress, how it has solved many of the problems we were facing with our vendor-controlled proprietary system, and how we have embraced the concept of WordPress as an Application Framework, allowing us to create all kinds of sites, applications, and mobile apps directly from WordPress.

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About Cameron Barrett

I design and build online communities and engagement-heavy web sites. I have designed private online properties for the U.S. Army, jetsetters, snowboarders, Presidential campaigns and political wonks. Led UX at Teach for America. I am now fulfilling my vision of helping 14,000+ public school districts migrate off horrible, expensive SaaS products and onto WordPress - saving millions of taxpayer dollars per year.