Welcome to the Whitingham Website Pilot Area

News & Announcements:

Welcome to the testing area for the Whitingham 2025 Website Update. Key improvements for the project include:

An updated file cabinet that should be easier for Town officials to manage. Department of Community neatly organizes warnings, Announcements, Agendas, Meeting Notes, and more.
The calendars system received many enhancements, including drag-and-drop, external calendar links for Google/Apple calendar sharing, and double-click features for adding new Events.
Smart defaults, for setting content into areas of the website based on the content author's "Primary Community". Site sections are by "Community", with Town Onew ffice, Select Board, Library, and OHW (Old Home Week) being the primary sections.
Accessibility mindfulness from the ground up.
A new "Media Library" now allows for better management of website assets. The content editing experience has been updated to allow for a much easier content layout using modern web interfaces.
Content naming patterns for documents and media better organize files based on the Community they belong to.

Advance Solr Search Content Indexing using Apache Zookeeper and Community taxonomy indexing
Security trimmed content results separates by Community: Town Office/Select Board, Library, and Old Home Week
Search result keyword boosting and summaries.
Enhancements for SEO, future ready for AI agent / bot integrations.