{"id":2405,"date":"2017-04-28T01:13:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&p=2405"},"modified":"2017-04-29T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T06:23:41","slug":"beyond-custom-post-types-building-an-organizational-news-site-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/beyond-custom-post-types-building-an-organizational-news-site-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prior to the development of the current Campus News site, there wasn’t really a public-facing news site as much as a static archive of press releases without rich content, pictures, seo, or any kind sorting mechanism. Since we migrated in to the new site, we’ve\u00a0seen a huge improvement in the quality and volume of news content and a dramatic increase in engagement with UTHSC news.<\/p>\n

This talk will focus on how we were able to leverage custom post types, taxonomies, fields, and templates and other built-in features to develop a highly customized, powerful site with lots of cool features including our campus-announcements system and an archive of press coverage from outside media. I’ll also emphasize some of the steps we took to ensure a quality user experience for the Communications and Marketing department who maintains the site’s content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to the development of the current Campus News site, there wasn’t really a public-facing news site as much as a static archive of press releases without rich content, pictures, seo, or any kind sorting mechanism. Since we migrated in … Continue reading Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6894301,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1500732000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[2386],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[643127],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-2405","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-track-c"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7M7p9-CN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"July 22, 2017","time":"9:00 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"2386","slug":"george-spake","name":"George Spake","link":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/george-spake\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/2386"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/gpspake"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fayetteville.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}