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Case Study – Community Library

Community Library Website

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This is a 61 part case study on how to set up a community library website, how to organize materials, display them and style the site. Many intermediate techniques are used in this extensive WordPress and Thesis series.

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 2 – Create Custom Post Types

This is the second in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library site. We are using custom post types for different types of content. We have determined that we will have 2 additional types of content, [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 3 – Custom Post Type Configuration

This is the third in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. We are using custom post types for different types of content. In this lesson we are looking at the advanced options in the [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 4 – Custom Taxonomy Decisions – Theory

This is the fourth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we will be deciding what the custom taxonomies will be and if they are hierarchical or non-hierarchical. We are also [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 5 – Custom Taxonomy Decisions – Practical Application

This is the fifth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS).  In this case study we are creating a community library website.  In this lesson we will put into practice the theory that we discussed previously.  We will decide which data elements are hierarchical custom [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 6 – Incorporating Existing Data Into the Project

This is the sixth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we discuss some of the issues around importing existing data. Some is saved as posts, some as taxonomies and some [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 7 – Creating Hierarchical Custom Taxonomies

This is the seventh in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we set up our hierarchical custom taxonomies. We go through the process of configuring them using the Custom Post Type [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 8 – Creating Non-Hierarchical Custom Taxonomies

This is the eighth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we set up our non-hierarchical custom taxonomies. We go through the process of configuring them using the Custom Post Type [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 9 – Creating Custom Post Meta

This is the ninth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we create our custom post meta. We use the plugin Verve Meta Boxes to create and configure our post meta. [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 10a – Restore the Database Using BackupBuddy

This is the tenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). One of the large tasks is importing existing data into the WordPress database. A crucial part of testing that import is restoring the database when the import doesn’t work properly. In this video tutorial [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study- Part 10 – Creating Custom Post Meta – Continued

This is the tenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community library website. In this lesson we continue to create our custom post meta. We add a select box for adding the post meta. Video Transcript [...]

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Community Library Website – Part 10b – Backup the Database Using phpMyAdmin

This is the tenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are preparing to import existing data into the database so it is crucial to have a system in place for restoring the database to a pre-import condition. In this lesson we make some [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study- Part 11 – Importing Existing Data to the Website

This is the eleventh in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. The first step in doing this is to arrange the data in a way that the plugin can [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 12 – Prepare Existing Data for import by the CSV Importer plugin

This is the twelfth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. The second step in doing this is to modify or sanitize the data so the plugin will treat [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 13 – Import Existing Data Using the CSV Importer Plugin

This is the thirteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. In this step we actually import the data, find an error and restore the database to the pre-import [...]

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Community Library Website – Case Study Part 14 – Date in Permalink Configuration

This is the fourteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we discuss possible permalink structures for the site. We consider how to use the date in the permalink. A note about Permalink structure in WordPress 3.3. It is no longer necessary [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 15 – Importing Images

This is the fifteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. We have decided to import images using this method as well. In this lesson we add the images [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 16b – Final Data Import

This is the sixteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We are using the CSV Importer plugin to import an existing database from a CSV file. A member has followed the directions but is getting an error on data import. We look at her [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 17 – Add Thesis Post Meta to Custom Post Type

This is the seventeenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). We want to add the Thesis post meta boxes to our custom post types. In this session we write the function to add the Thesis post meta to our custom post types. Video Transcript [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 18 – Add WordPress 3.0 Menus

This is the eighteenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this session we configure and add WordPress 3.0 menus to the site in order to display lists of our custom post types and custom taxonomies. Video Transcript And so the next thing we [...]

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