wordpress and tnew integration

TLCC 2016

Ash Mann Scott Whitehouse

Seamless integration with WordPress and TNEW

Substrakt

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‣ Based in the UK with offices in Birmingham & London

‣ Focus on core sectors; arts & culture, health, education.

‣ Tessitura clients including:

‣ Birmingham Hippodrome

‣ Nottingham Theatre Royal & Concert Hall

‣ Wales Millennium Centre’s Festival of Voice

‣ More at substrakt.com

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Substrakt Ethos & Approach

‣ We work with people we like, on projects we love

‣ Foster long-term relationships

‣ Sector-specific knowledge

‣ Focus on what’s important

‣ Reduce duplication wherever possible (integration)

‣ Effective, user-centred design

‣ Insights-driven (measure all the things)

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Why WordPress?

‣ Open source

‣ Powerful

‣ Extensible (plays nicely with others)

‣ Extremely usable

‣ The community

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‣ Heroku ‣ Platform as a Service. ‣ We deploy code using GitLab to application. ‣ Application sits on dynos - instant scalability. ‣ We focus on what we are good at.

‣ Amazon Web Services ‣ S3 and CloudFront CDN (Assets) ‣ RDS - Database

Hosting Environment

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‣ Dedicated team looking after TNEW - constant development.

‣ Will always work with new Tessitura upgrades.

‣ Use your resources wisely

TNEW rather than ‘Full’ Integration

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‣ TNEW Hosted Template. ‣ Substrakt will implement your own styling.

‣ We host your TNEW template in AWS S3 Bucket. ‣ Substrakt will skin your TNEW site so it will: ‣ (a) become a seamless part of your front-end site.

Or ‣ (b) look beautiful as a standalone site.

How we integrate with Tessitura & TNEW

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‣ Attendable ‣ WordPress plugin. ‣ Tessitura Web API integration. ‣ Focus based on using content that you have already setup

for TNEW. ‣ Use of keywords to identify additional items such as genre,

access performances and education events.

How we integrate with Tessitura & TNEW

Title

Production Synopsis

Keywords

Keywords

Production Image

Keywords

Credits and Roles

Production Season Text

Performance Level Information

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‣ Project started in early 2015. ‣ Frustration with old CMS - no flexibility. ‣ Duplication of content entry - Tessitura and marketing

website. ‣ Good starting point to clean up existing Tessitura structure

and utilise more functionality. ‣ TNEW was skinned, but was not focused and not very

functional.

Birmingham Hippodrome

Keywords

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‣ No consistency with keywords

‣ Productions with none, others with too many

‣ Ballet production, trying to be an Opera imposter!

‣ Benefits of accurate keywords

Content

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AWS and website CMS

‣ TNEW, 3 different images

‣ TNMP, 2images, using same links from TNEW

‣ Website… lots of different images

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‣ Ambitious, unique brand ‣ Fully bilingual site ‣ Working with external partners ‣ Trialling TNEW for the first time as an organisation ‣ Trialling WordPress for the first as an organisation

Wales Millennium Centre - Festival of Voice

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‣ Further Tessitura integration - using keywords and custom web

content types. ‣ Nottingham Classics (programming strand) ‣ Education Events ‣ Access Performances

Nottingham Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

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‣ and 48pt if you really want to

‣ SHOUT

Page title

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‣ Wordpress combined with TNEW is an elegant and powerful

mix. ‣ The Tessitura API presents numerous opportunities for

sophisticated enhancement on top of this. ‣ Your website shouldn’t force you to jump through weird

hoops. ‣ Your systems can, and should, talk to each other.

Summary

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Questions?

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Ash Mann - Strategic Director ash@substrakt.com @biglittlethings

Scott Whitehouse - Head of Technical Delivery scott@substrakt.com @s_whitehouse

Thank you for time this morning.