largo project: a responsive wordpress framework for news sites
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Slides from a presentation at WordCamp Columbus 2013. More at: http://largoproject.orgTRANSCRIPT
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Me• Currently:
– Director of Technology for the Investigative News Network
– Founder of my own consultancy, Media Toybox– Learning to play banjo
• Previously: – Director of Strategy at Mindset Digital– Director of Digital at WOSU Public Media (NPR/PBS)– Director of Digital at Indiana Public Media (NPR/PBS)– Grad school at Indiana University– Undergrad at Ohio State
Email: [email protected]: @aschweig
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“We, representatives of nonprofit news organizations, gather at a
time when investigative reporting, so crucial to a
functioning democracy, is under threat. There is an urgent need
to nourish and sustain the emerging investigative
journalism ecosystem to better serve the public.”
— The Pocantico Declaration, 2009
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Today: 86 Members
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Today: 86 Members
http://InvestigativeNewsNetwork.org
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The Problem
• Many members have little or no dedicated technology resources
• INN wants to help but we’re a small organization
• Not feasible to provide one-on-one help to every member
• Most members have websites, but…
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http://LargoProject.orghttp://github.com/inn/largo
Our Solution: Project Largo
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Project Largo
• WordPress-based– Used by more and more major news
sites– Large, active community–Many third party plugins– Easy to learn– Fast and (relatively) inexpensive to
develop
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Project Largo
• WordPress-based• Optimized for News Publishers
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Project Largo
• WordPress-based• Optimized for News Publishers• Responsive Design – Looks great on
any device
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Project Largo
• WordPress-based• Optimized for News Publishers• Responsive design – Looks good on
any device• Easy to setup, customize and extend
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Benefits
• For Publishers– Dramatically reduce cost of developing and launching a website– Remove technical barriers to allow you to focus on content
• For Readers– Clean, fast-loading, beautiful reading experience on any device
• For Developers– A robust toolkit for building news websites
• For INN– Framework allows us to build and launch sites quickly and
provide better support to our members– Common backend enables new distribution and content
syndication possibilities– When INN (or a member) builds a new feature we’re better able
to share with the entire network
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Where We Are(~1 Year into the project)
• About 20 sites in our network using Largo• Around 20 non-INN sites (that we know of) using the open
source version• Upcoming first “public” release of the Largo framework
– Design improvements– Custom landing page for projects– More flexibility for article page layouts– Better tools for customizing the look of a Largo site
(without having to touch the code)• Working on better documentation• Soon: new “magazine” theme optimized for Longform
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Contribute!
Download or fork Largo on Github: http://github.com/inn/largo(Plugins other themes, etc. at: http://github/inn)
Use Largo in your own projectContribute Code (or documentation)
Get in [email protected](or: [email protected])
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Questions?Adam Schweigert
[email protected]: @aschweig
Project Largohttp://LargoProject.org
Github: http://github.com/inn/largoTwitter: @LargoProject
Investigative News Networkhttp://InvestigativeNewsNetwork.org
Twitter: @INN