While at Penn-Harris-Madison School corporation I developed a staff blogging platform that allowed any staff member to instantly create an easily customizable blog or website. For those interested I have created another similar version of this platform to be used in other companies.

I was the sole developer on this Staff Blogging platform which hosts over 100 sites / blogs.

This platform is built on the WordPress CMS engine and uses the built in Multi-site feature. Where this platform I developed differs is that it syncs to your Windows Active Directory / LDAP user database and automatically creates a new blog for the person upon their first login.

Check out the platform by visiting: blogs.phmschools.org

A list of features that are part of this platform; and NOT in a standard WordPress Multi-site network, include:

• Account Sync (with Active Directory / LDAP)
• Audio / video interactive guided walkthroughs
• Activity monitor
• Login Monitor
• Custom Sub-domains
• Automatic menu creation
• Automatic display of documents
• Images resized and optimized on upload (saves space and speeds up website load time)
• Mobile-friendly responsive image galleries
• Google Drive integration
• Google Analytics integration (in primary site only)
• Anti-spam via Akismet (enabled network wide)
• Users forced to verify account information (before website creation is allowed)
• Account lockouts after 10 bad attempts
• Built-in file-compression
• Comments are disabled by default
• Network wide options
• Customized admin menu and dashboard (removed unnecessary options)
• “Take Me Home” button to help users not get lost while viewing other sites in the network