Materials from the structure your beat session that Stephanie Yiu, Connor Jennings and I presented.
Examples
Politifact
http://www.politifact.com/ (using Django for structure)
– statements
– people (politicians and now pudits)
– legislative bills
– commercials
– states
– true/false spectrum of fact checks
Technically Philly
http://technical.ly/philly/directory/ (uses WordPress)
– people
– organizations
– projects
– expertise
Homicide Watch
http://homicidewatch.org/ (uses Django for structure, WordPress for posts)
Kaiser Family Foundation
has 30+ Custom Post Types that allow for faceting when you search their site:
http://kff.org/search/?s=vaccinations
They combined 10 years of content across 10 CMSes into WordPress:
The structured data allows them to generate these maps of State and Global Health Indicators.
http://kff.org/global-indicator/malaria-deaths/#map
General types
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Crime
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Education
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Government
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Transportation
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Business
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Entertainment
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Arts
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Restaurants
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Food/recipes
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Sports
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Obits
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Anything!
How can WordPress help?
Custom post types
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/08/complete-guide-custom-post-types/
Custom meta boxes
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/04/create-custom-post-meta-boxes-wordpress/
Plugin
http://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-box
Custom fields
http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields
Custom taxonomies
http://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/01/04/create-custom-taxonomies-wordpress/