The Quabbin Regional School District’s web site is one-of-a-kind and a prime example of how WordPress development is only limited by one’s imagination. At first I was unsure that it could be done — nine web sites, nine blogs and nine different calendars — all under “one roof.” But with a little ingenuity, we made it work.
QRSD wanted a web site for the overall district, one for the High School, one for the Middle School and one for each of the six elementary schools. Each one would be maintained by their respective staff. Each one required different pages with different content, their own news blog and their own activity calendar.
The WordPress Roles plug-in module was used to set permissions for the various users who would be responsible for updating the district and school web sites. It was critical that each user be given full permission to their own school’s web pages, but no permission to modify the other schools’ pages.
Quabbin’s many calendars were a challenge. We needed to write some custom PHP code to modify a WordPress Calendar module, so that we could display a combined activity calendar on the district web site but break out each individual school’s events on their respective web sites.
Parents, students and staff at Quabbin are thrilled with the new site, which is not only informative and inviting, but also serves as an important means of communication between home & school.