Technology Used by the Willamson Strong team
We use a lot of open-source and freemium services to create a complete campaign experience. In the spirit of sharing useful knowledge, below are links to all the core components that are using at time of writing. This technology integration was created by a Williamson County Parent.
MailChimp
MailChimp is used to automatically process all registrations and to build the main campaign contact database
Podio
Podio is our secret campaign management weapon. We use it for project management, automation of workflows, light weight CRM and more.
Elegant Themes
Elegant Themes Divi 2.0 is used as the core WordPress theme to provide a complete CMS like experience
CloudFlare
CloudFlare is used for security and performance optimization, as the content delivery network (CDN) for Williamson Strong
WordFence
WordPress can be difficult to secure. We use a variety of protocols to protect information, one of the most useful and simple to use being WordFence.
Twibbon
Twibbon is used to allow our supporters to update their Facebook or Twitter profile pictures with a watermark of support
UpDraftPlus
We use UpDraftPlus to take automatic backups of the website and databases and store on Amazon S3 (free version)
RSS King Pro
RSS King Pro is a straight forward plugin that is used to pull news feeds from Google News
Super Socializer
Super Socializer is used for the Social Media Share buttons, Facebook commenting, and other social features of the website
Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO ensures that our meta tags are set correctly for each post and page when sharing with Facebook, or crawled by the search engines
Custom Facebook Feed Advanced
Custom Facebook Feed Advanced is a WordPress plugin to link the Facebook page with the website. It has been forked form the lite version to add comments, events etc.
API Mail Router
api-mail-router is a custom-written WordPress plugin to integrate Gravity Forms, MailChimp, Podio, Mandrill and Facebook.
Facebook Survey Login
facebook-survey login is a wordpress login that allows authentication with facebook as part of any survey workflow
Gravity Podio Integration
gravity-podio is a wordpress plugin for Gravity Forms that integrates surveys with any custom app in Podio