Presentation at HighEdWeb 2014 Conference in Portland, OR

1. Confessions of a
CMS Generalist
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or how I learned to be like Groot
Stephanie Guay
Director of Web Projects
Nicholas School | Duke University
#DPA 7 @techiestephanie

4. In the beginning…..

5. In the beginning…..
HTML

6. In the beginning…..
HTML
CSS

7. In the beginning…..
HTML
CSS
PHP includes

8. In the beginning…..
HTML
CSS
PHP includes
I’m AWESOME 

12. Welcome to Plone

13. Welcome to Plone
Zope/python

14. Welcome to Plone
Zope/python
Blogs

15. Welcome to Plone
Zope/python
Blogs
Users can add/edit

16. Welcome to Plone
Zope/python
Blogs
Users can add/edit
Extend to entire website

17. Welcome to Plone
Zope/python
Blogs
Users can add/edit
Extend to entire website
I want my own site……

18. Welcome to Plone
Zope/python
Blogs
Users can add/edit
Extend to entire website
I want my own site……

19. Welcome to WordPress
WordPress

20. Welcome to WordPress
Duke network
WordPress

22. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
WordPress

23. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
php…what?
WordPress

24. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
php…what?
WordPress

25. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
--100+ sites
WordPress

26. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
--100+ sites
Blogs
WordPress

27. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
--100+ sites
Blogs
--60+ blogs
WordPress

28. Welcome (again) to WordPress
Duke network
Internal network
--100+ sites
Blogs
--60+ blogs
2 CMSes – everyone is happy? Right?
WordPress

30. Welcome to Drupal

31. Welcome to Drupal
php

32. Welcome to Drupal
php
Entire site Plone >> Drupal

33. Welcome to Drupal
php
Entire site Plone >> Drupal
Now I have 3…..

34. So who’s the winner?
WordPress

35. So who’s the winner?
WordPress
No one

37. How do they measure up?
WordPress

38. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
WordPress

39. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
WordPress

40. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
WordPress

41. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
WordPress

42. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
1. Theming
WordPress

43. How do they measure up?
WordPress
1. Setup/maintenance

44. How do they measure up?
WordPress
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment

45. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
WordPress

46. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
WordPress

47. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
WordPress

48. How do they measure up?
WordPress
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
• architecture

49. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
• architecture

51. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
• architecture
WordPress

53. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
• deployment
• architecture
WordPress

55. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
WordPress

56. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress

57. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my

58. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
8 Products
--maps, captchas, etc

59. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
8 Products
--maps, captchas, etc
--infrequent updates

60. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress

61. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress
60+ Plugins (avg 10/site)
--forms, slideshows, etc

62. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress
60+ Plugins (avg 10/site)
--forms, slideshows, etc
--frequent easy updates

63. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress

64. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress
249 Modules
--views, url paths

65. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
• Products, plugins &
modules oh my
WordPress
249 Modules
--views, url paths
--frequent, complicated
updates

66. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
WordPress

67. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content

68. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content

69. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
WordPress

70. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
WordPress

71. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing

74. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing

77. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
WordPress

80. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
1. Theming
WordPress

81. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
1. Theming
WordPress

82. How do they measure up?
1. Setup/maintenance
1. Add-ons/updates
1. Content
1. Editing
1. Theming
WordPress

83. So What Have I Learned?
WordPress

84. So What Have I Learned?
No one ‘best’ CMS
WordPress

85. So What Have I Learned?
No one ‘best’ CMS
Be Groot – learn to adapt
WordPress

86. So What Have I Learned?
No one ‘best’ CMS
Be Groot – learn to adapt
Look at YOUR resources
WordPress

87. So What Have I Learned?
No one ‘best’ CMS
Be Groot – learn to adapt
Look at YOUR resources
Use your networks
WordPress

88. Confessions of a
CMS Generalist
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Thanks for listening :)
Stephanie Guay
Director of Web Projects
Nicholas School | Duke University
#DPA 7 @techiestephanie