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WordPress for a Family History Archive
- 1. WordPress for a John Adams (@johnthegeo) Family History Archive WordUp Glasgow, 4 Feb 2012
- 3. but almost a century ago…
- 5. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 “I think this is the first Sunday that I have ever been away from home all day”
- 6. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 “We are likely to take our Xmas dinner in the trenches this year.”
- 7. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 “I suppose by this time you will think me dead.” 16/5/16 “I often heard it said that Scotch people were hard with their money. But I will believe it no longer.” Paisley: “We are sick of rain now.”
- 8. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Ypres: “I have gone up the line today” Rouen: “What a lovely country to live in. I believe I could live here all my life.”
- 9. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
- 10. 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
- 11. How does WordPress help? Features Plugins Core Features: Category Custom Fields • Posts/pages/images Default Sort Ascend • Categories Widget Logic • Menus • 2010 Child Theme Custom Post Types Custom Post Types UI Post Type Converter Post Type Convertr Multiple authors Authors Widget User Photo Geocoding WP Geo Timeline WP SIMILE Timeline
- 12. Pages and menus
- 13. Categories run everything else Category Custom Fields Default Sort Ascend Authors Widget
- 14. Custom Post Types: Letter Custom Post Types UI Post Type Convertr Post Type Converter
- 15. Multiple Authors User Photo Authors Widget
- 18. When? SIMILIE Timeline WP SIMILE Timeline plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-simile- timeline/
- 20. What Next?
- 21. What Next?
- 22. …and the story continues
- 23. THANK YOU Questions?
Notas del editor
- This is a story about an amazing family archive that we hold and how WordPress can help tell this story.
- John Adams – was my grandfather. I’m one of the last people to remember him – this is me with him when I was small.
- But nearly 100 years ago, this was the younger man in 1914 – with two men from his home area.
- So, here’s the story…The archive contains:LettersField postcardsTelegramPoW letter
- 1914John Adams joined up in September 1914. He was a typical country boy who had not travelled far from home.
- 1915
- 1915He spent the first part of 1915 training in Ireland and England, arriving in France in October 1915, almost immediately to the trenches.
- 1916John was wounded in May 1916 (shot accidentally by one of his own colleagues). This was 6 weeks before his Battalion was decimated on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.He then convalesced and was treated in Paisley – interesting opinions of people and weather.
- 1917John was posted to Ypres (Passchendaele).Also (after being gassed), spent time on a farm near Rouen.
- 1918William Lockhart was from my grandmother’s area. He was taken prisoner during the 1918 German Spring Offensive (Operation Michael), and he wrote this letter to my great grandfather Isaac Reid
- 1918John Adams was wounded in October 1918 – this was the telegram sent to my great-grandmother.
- 1919Discharge certificate
- How does WordPress help? Features and plugins that I’ve used to get the site working the way I want.
- Pages are used for static contentStandardWordPress Custom Menu
- Categories run everything else. Custom menus.Key plugins:Category Custom Fields – add additional metadata to the category descriptionsDefault Sort Ascend – read the story as a old-to-new timelineAuthors Widget – show multiple authors
- Custom Post Types are used for Letters to add additional metadata.Built using Custom Post Types UII needed to convert standard Posts to Custom Post Types. 2 tools:Post Type ConvertrPost Type Converter(one does bulk conversion, one does post-at-a time conversion)
- To manage multiple authors:User Photo to add user photos to the profileAuthors Widget to show author list.
- All letters are “somewhere in France”.But good sources of location information (such as War Diaries).
- Use of Ben Huson’s geocoding plugin to record location for each post. Can also show locations for all posts in a category.
- SIMILE timeline plugin to display the story in a different way. Some issues with this…
- Issues with core dates prior to 1970 – now solved.
- Next steps:Field postcards – use CPT to record these as a different set of metadata
- Coming Next….Field postcards – the Tweets of the Great WarChallenge is to use Custom Post Types to record this information in a structured way.
- I also need to redesign the front page to make the story more readable. Happy to take ideas!
- And there’s a further story to tell… after the War, John became a Sergeant Instructor with the police. And I have lots of material from there.