Using WordPress for an Intranet

John Bollwitt

Saturday, November 20th, 2010
6 Comments

I just finished up giving my session on Building an Intranet with WordPress at WordCamp Fraser Valley this morning. This session reflected mostly on a personal project that I’ve worked on at my radio day job. In the true spirit of giving back to the WordPress community, I showcased the project as well as the story and planning that went into it.

As promised, here are the slides from my session on SlideShare.

Building an Intranet with WordPress
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Here is a break down of the plugins I mentioned in this session. The conversion of Keynote to PowerPoint to SlideShare didn’t take so well, so here’s a list of those plugins with links to find out more about them.

If you having any questions about the material I’ve presented, please leave a comment on this post.

6 Comments

  1. IntranetLounge Says:
    November 20th, 2010 at 12:34 pm

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  2. What I learned at WordCamp Fraser Valley Says:
    November 21st, 2010 at 1:35 pm

    [...] John Bollwitt‘s talk on how he implemented WordPress as an intranet solution for 4 local radio stations. John detailed how developing Floyd (their name for the intranet) really improved communication, community and documentation for the entire staff of 150+ people. Even the GM now has a personal, weekly blog he posts to. It became a way to share events and photos, as well as corporate documentation. He posted his presentation here: http://sixty4media.com/2010/11/20/using-wordpress-for-an-intranet/ [...]

  3. Simon Bostock Says:
    November 25th, 2010 at 4:30 am

    I was wondering if this could be done (I was looking at Moodle too, as an example of something with relatively easy security too).

    Did you host it behind a firewall or do you rely on WordPress security stuff and host it on the web? I guess I’m asking if people can access it remotely.

    This is great, by the way. Often, the only ‘push’ you need is somebody showing you that it’s possible. Good word – thanks.

  4. Davis Says:
    December 17th, 2010 at 1:01 am

    WordPress is so scalable, I’m quickly learning you can do just about anything with it and then expand or shrink it later without having to re-engineer the entire system. Does the entire staff have accounts with different permissions or are there only a few accounts that are responsible for the content?

  5. Referencement Says:
    July 19th, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    I have troubles makings the files in my WordPress intranet secure, have any tips for that?

  6. Flo Says:
    May 21st, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Thanks for sharing. We just recently completed our first intranet using WordPress and we and the client are absolutely ecstatic with how well it works. Our intranet shares more than 6000 files and more than 300 people access it on a regular basis without any problems. For security we installed an SSL certificate which does make interactions with the intranet a little slower at times, but the files are kept much safer that way.

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