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Digital Engagement facilitate the use of Wordpress as an alternative content management system to Squiz, to meet needs that Squiz isn't as well suited to and when we are unable to provide the developer resource. Hosted with SiteGround, most sites are for conferences, but also blogs and a few others. So far, none have required to look like the University brand. In fact, they haven't been allowed to, in case they did it poorly. But we have possible contenders for Wordpress that would really benefit from a Victoria theme.
Example site currently live include:
- Experimental Psychology Conference 2019: Standard conference site, of which we have about 10 and growing. All such sites use one of two default themes.
- Best New Zealand Poems: Has its own custom theme, so probably not a candidate.
- MyView: A blog for current students. Uses a (cheap) commercial theme.
The theme work could be split into a design piece, followed by a development/build. Or both could be together.
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- Victoria-like theme: Visitors should see the association with the main University theme, although it can be different. This means the new theme must respect the tone and sentiment of our current theme.
- Should work with our conference site, including the plugins required for this site.
- Flexible: Avoid locking user up in restrictive patterns, as we don't know all the requirements of future sites.
- Maintainable: The theme must be easy to maintain, both as the Wordpress core and other plug ins change, but also for future improvements.
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