As every character starts in a starting area, so too must a guild’s blog start with a post: it has to start somewhere. We have outgrown the guildportal website. Perhaps ‘outgrown’ is less accurate than saying the guildportal experiment has run its course and we have not found a burning need to continue to use it. Blizzard has implemented some of the key benefits the guildportal provided: a view into the guild roster and bank contents. On the other hand, guildportal has some restrictions that I think we don’t need: user account adminightmare, post/comment limits, accessibility issues.
This blog is an exercise on two fronts: 1) testing whether a blog is better suited to our out of game communication needs; and 2) testing whether wordpress is our one-stop-shop for our communication hub. I’ve heard a fair amount of positive feedback concerning wordpress as a blog solution. Where the main focus of the prior guild website was information output, a blog certainly can meet that functional need. However, as an information input repository I am not yet sold. In other words, I’d like to see if a blog is a suitable communication vehicle for all of our guild to be able to post communications (and whether we can control what is publicly available). In short, we are testing whether a blog on wordpress is sufficient for our communication hub needs or whether we need to move to a full-fledged content management system hosted at cost.
? [1] Start Guild Blog
Use wordpress to create a guild blog and test whether it fits our needs then return to guildmaster.
guild blog 0/1
