After several years of talking about and conceptualizing, and months of development, I’m proud to formally (and finally) release GovPress, a simple, elegant WordPress theme for government.
GovFresh WP: building a government WordPress theme
Despite the fact that millions of websites around the world today are powered by low- and no-cost open source content management systems, nearly all small city governments remain trapped in the 90s. To date, however, this need hasn’t adequately been served, and we need to change this. We can change this.
The dark secret behind the De Leon, TX, website makeover
The dark secret behind the City of De Leon, TX, Website was that it was designed, developed and deployed in 24 hours. As part of the manor.govfresh ‘City Makeover,’ I re-designed and developed the new De Leon Website using the free GovFresh WordPress Theme as the foundation.
Michigan’s Calhoun County Road Commission gets a GovFresh makeover
Michigan’s Calhoun County Road Commission is the latest government agency to make use of our GovFresh Gov 2.0 WordPress theme. The site also integrates SeeClickFix’s service report tools and IdeaScale’s ideas and citizen collaboration widget.
WordPress and Government
WordPress Bible author Aaron Brazell discusses issues around government’s use of the Website and blogging platform, WordPress.
Update: Free Gov 2.0 WordPress Theme
We’ve updated the free Gov 2.0 WordPress Theme and a prototype is available for review at wp.govfresh.com.