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