WordPress Customization for Higher Educational Institution’s Websites

WordPress Customization for
Higher Educational Institution’s
Websites
DIGITAL-MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
BINUS UNIVERSITY
OCT 2013

Friday, October 18, 13

Fikri Rasyid
@ﬁkrirasyid
http://ﬁkrirasyid.com
frasyid@binus.edu

Deni Tri
facebook.com/2denitri
dhartanto@binus.edu

Higher Educational Institution’s Websites
DIGITAL-MEDIA DEVELOPMENT ● BINUS UNIVERSITY

Institution


Higher Educational Institution


Management Process in
Higher educational institution
registrant

student

alumni

INPUT

process

OUTPUT

management
admission

Registration

Study

Exam

ALUMNI & binusian
career

SERVICES

Community

Industry


Registrant

Student

Alumni

INPUT

Process

OUTPUT

Management
Admission

Registration

Study

Exam

ALUMNI & BINUSIan
Career

SERVICES

Community

Industry


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

BINUS University Site
binus.ac.id


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

Departments &
Divisions’ Site
sbm.binus.ac.id
websimprug.binus-school.net
binus.edu
binus.tv
dmd.binus.ac.id
and 40+ more


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

BINUS TRACKING

dmd.binus.ac.id/tracking


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

BINUS TICKET

dmd.binus.ac.id/tICKET


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

ACHIEVEMENTS

Achievement.binus.ac.id


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

BINUS MICROSITE
socs.binus.ac.id/beefest-mobile-2013/
msi.binus.ac.id/commit/
binus.edu/iea/
binus.edu/porsekary/
english.binus.ac.id/national-englishcompetition/


ACADEMIC
PROCESS

+

BINUS CALENDAR
event.binus.ac.id


Today’s FOcus:
Event


Today’s FOcus: Event


Let’s Talk

&

BINUS MICROSITE

BINUS CALENDAR


The Concept

&

BINUS MICROSITE

BINUS CALENDAR


BINUS Microsite


Rationale
• Continuous need for organizing an event
• Demand for an event website become inevitable
• Every Division / Department website is already a child site of
binus.ac.id
• Whereas it takes 1 more depth for the event website


THE PLAN

msi.binus.ac.id


The Plan

Display information, registration, schedule & Venue, paper submission, gallery


BINUS Calendar


Rationale
• Most sub-sites have an “event” section
• According to BINUS’ Marketing Communication Division, there are
at least 9 events reported monthly across BINUS
• If we really think about it, an academic institutions must have this
“academic plan”


Let’s make a calendar, then


THE PLAN
Other site A
binus.ac.id

CENTRAL
event.binus.ac.id

Other site B
scdc.binus.ac.id

Other site C
and many moore


THE (REVISED) PLAN
Other site A
binus.ac.id

CENTRAL
event.binus.ac.id

Other site B
scdc.binus.ac.id

Other site C
and many moore


CENTRAL
event.binus.ac.id


The
“CLIENTS”
everywhere

binus.ac.id

BINUS.edu

scdc.binus.ac.id


The Tricks

&

BINUS MICROSITE

BINUS CALENDAR


Simple Solution
• Provide a new installation of Wordpress multisite for every
department that wanna hold an event
• Create a subsite and theme for each and every event


Disaster
• it's impossible to handle the rapidly request for event from every
department
• Must maintain dozens of WordPress installation


Better Solution
• Create a system that capable of building a microsite inside a
wordpress website, even though it's a subsite


Here’s How it looks


Here’s How It Looks


Here’s How It Works


Store it


Rewrite, Flush, & Redirect


Microsite Redirect


THE API
• Rewrite_API
(http://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API/add_rewrite_rule)

• Administration Menu Functions
(http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Menus)

• Options API
http://codex.wordpress.org/Options_API


Lesson Learned
• Microsite hooks & filters are for itself only
• Disable conflicted hooks & filters
i.e.: wp_ enqueue_style / wp_enqueue_script

• Convert every link of wordpress object in navigation menu / post
into microsite pattern link.
www.abc.com/2012/12/{page-slug} is converted into www.abc.com/{microsite_name}/article/{pageslug}


Microsite hooks & filters
Are For Itself only
1. Detect the environment
2. Hook into
template_redirect to add
microsite’s functions


Disable conflicted hooks & filters
1. Create a function for
cleaning intended hooks
2. Get list of every hooks/
ﬁlters that we want to
disable, (the list is set by
administrator)
3. Loop the listed hooks
and call remove_ﬁlter for
every hooks


Convert every on-site link
into microsite pattern link.
1. Get the URL string from
href attribute and the
inner HTML of “a” element
on the post body /
navigation menu
2. pass the string on to
function
“microsite_article_convert
er” that responsible to
convert it into our
microsite pattern


Let’s extend the microsite
Assuming the environment is clean, we can put our creativities
here:
1.Implant any microsite feature as much as you wish
2.Add new redirection ﬁlter
3.Put every hook / ﬁlter based on your needs


THE PLAN

event.binus.ac.id

scdc.binus.ac.id/event/


THe Plan
• Create a centralized event site
http://event.binus.ac.id

• Every site should have an event page
http://division_name.binus.ac.id/event/


Lesson Learned
• Quite tricky queries, especially for the monthly view
• WordPress’ default XML-RPC Component can not be used for our
queries
• Extend the XML-RPC Components so the sub-site can fetch and
display similar result, only ﬁltered to their own program taxonomy


Thou Shall Extend
WordPress’ XML-RPC Components
1. Filter xmlrpc_methods
2. Add new XML-RPC
component to it


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