Wordpress
Wordpress is an alternate open source Content Management System (CMS) which allows you to manage and deliver content in a manner similar to what you can do with Moodle. Wordpress lacks specific features appropriate for online learning, but still has a powerful set of features, themes, plugins etc.
Contact us to find out if Wordpress is the right solution to some of your content management issues.
Key Features
Full standards compliance — WordPress developers have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C.
No rebuilding — Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
Pages — Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static “About” page that you manage through WordPress.
Themes — WordPress comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated webzine a piece of cake, and you can even have multiple themes with totally different looks that you switch with a single click.
Cross-blog communication tools— WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
Comments — Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
Spam protection — Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
Full user registration — WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
Easy Importing — There currently are importers for many existing CMS’s.
Workflow — You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
Multiple authors — WordPress’ highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users
Ping away — WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.
Password Protected Posts — You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
