Richard Light, Richard Langley

MUA Annual Meeting, 25 September 2013

Wordpress Popular framework for developing web sites

Particular emphasis on supporting blogs

Free, Open Source

Increasingly used for museum web sites, e.g.

Toledo Museum of Art: http://www.toledomuseum.org/

Ukrainian Museum-Archives

Margate Museum

John Gray Centre (w. Orangeleaf)

Wordpress plugins Popular way of adding functionality to Wordpress

sites, e.g.

Spam filter for comments

Calendar

Contact form

Simply download and install

Fit within overall site design/theme Standard themes provided with Wordpress

Specialist museum themes (http://museumthemes.com/)

Modes Wordpress plugin Allows you to include Modes data within a Wordpress

site

Live data access

Straightforward to set up

Can access local data, or remote files if published as Modes Linked Data

Adding “shortcodes” To add Modes plugin features to your site, simply

include “shortcodes” in your Wordpress page:

Initial screen: fixed searches

Modes ‘data grid’ Fixed searches are defined in plugin’s admin page:

Modes ‘hit list’

Hit list facets

Easily update your search Click on a facet term to add it to your search

Current search terms are displayed, and can be cleared if not required:

Modes ‘detail’ view

Comment form Logged-in users can submit comments on an object:

Modes ‘timeline’

Modes map view

Multiple data sources In this test implementation three Modes files are

being searched in parallel

Two are local files; one is remote, accessed via the Modes Linked Data Framework

Data from the remote site is displayed in the format specified by the owner of that site

Specifying data sources

Autocomplete support As you type into text boxes, matching terms from the

index are displayed:

Map: pop-up detail

Specifying indexes to search

Modes index search

Development plans Working with Swansea Museums to develop an initial

“proper” implementation

Interested in partnering with other Modes users who are planning a Wordpress-base site

Option of additional features, e.g.

More structured input (-> collections management)

Easily drop single records into a page

Possibly extend support to other CMS platforms, e.g. Drupal, if there is the demand