WordPress with SiteControl is your website – under control. Updates on your own schedule. WordPress is a popular, state-of-the-art content management solution for web sites. WordPress is easy enough to use yet extremely flexible and powerful. You can get started immediately with the basic features and included themes, then grow into the advanced features and realize WordPress’ full potential. WordPress is based on the same software used to power high profile companies such as New York Times, Dow Jones, Reuters, Harvard, Rolling Stone and many more.1
WordPress is the same software used to power high profile companies such as New York Times, Dow Jones, Reuters, Harvard, Rolling Stone and many more.
Feature List of all the stuff WordPress can do
Page Management
Pages constitute the largest portion of your online content. Easily rearrange pages in your site to control where they are in the hierarchy, and which pages display in the site’s global navigation using the PageMash plugin.
Posts
Posts are for date related, or chronological content. With WordPress you can control when posts are published and categorize them for organization or to enable site features depending on your theme.
Hero/Features (jQuery Cycle)
One of the best ways to keep a visitor is with a great narrative hook. Often in web design this hook as to be visual. A current trend in web design is to have the “hero” marketing feature. The hero feature is generally a large graphic in the top third of the web design that is set to entice a visitor to dig deeper into your site. In most cases, we set this feature up to rotate or cycle, this is sometimes called a carousel.
With WordPress, CU*Answers Web Services configures your theme to make this hero content completely manageable by the content administrator. This enables you to change these features as often as necessary to match current marketing campaigns.
See this type of hero in practice on Lender*VP and cuasterisk.com.
Gravity Forms
With the Gravity Forms plugin, you are able to build custom forms for your website. Unlike most form builders, Gravity Forms is intuitive and extrememly easy to use. The only caveat with these forms, is you cannot collect private data, all private data should be collected via a secure source.
Gravity Forms is included with all CU*Answers Web Services WordPress installations.
Comments
With WordPress you can engage your visitors by opening up a forum of communication via comments. Enabling comments on your site will allow visitors to post remarks on your posts. Just make sure you are monitoring them, leaving comments unanswered is bad form.
SEO
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the term for modifying your site to increase your search engine rankings. WordPress by default is SEO enabled and upon installation, CU*Answers Web Services professional enable the appropriate settings for SEO. SEO can be further enhanced with some plugins, contact Web Services for pricing and more information.
Mobile Theme
Having your site mobile enabled means it renders specifically for mobile devices. This can make the experience much better for users on mobile devices because you are providing a lighter (meaning takes less time to load) version of your site over the limited bandwidth available and you are putting the key information at their fingertips. With CU*Answers’ WordPress installation, we automatically enable a mobile theme for your site.
Learn more about our mobile website offerings.
Widgetized Sidebars
With WordPress you have control over the main content through the main content management features. But you also have control over what is displayed in the sidebars. The sidebars are the wings of you main content and usually contain less important links and information. WordPress gives you control through the widget feature. This feature enables you to drag and drop various blocks of content into the sidebars and rearrange as needed.
Search
Search is an important feature of your site. With WordPress search is built in and allows a visitor to scan you entire site for the desired content. CU*Answers Web Services takes this a step further and enables certain advanced search functionality on most sites.
Links Manager
Part of your site is being a resource for your visitors on information at other locations. The Links Manager enables you to set up and categorize links to third party resources. These link categories can then be used in the widgets to put a wealth of information at your visitors disposal.
More information on using the Link Manager.
SiteControl
And SiteControl is our custom WordPress plugin that integrates with CU*Answers’ services.
Satellite Rateboard
The Satellite Rateboard enables a CU*BASE Credit Union to update their website rates through their regular rate management in CU*BASE GOLD. This update in CU*BASE GOLD automatically pushes out through It’s Me 247 Online Banking to the website.
Library Articles
With the SiteControl plugin you are also able to use prebuilt content on your website, including library articles, shared marketing content and calculators.