What is the Humanity WordPress theme?
The Website Operations team at the International Secretariat developed an maintains a theme for WordPress which can be easily set-up and re-purposed by website administrators and IT professionals.
The theme is free to use and includes most of the functionality you need to run a website.
If you have specific requirements that aren’t met by the theme, you can fund additional development on top of the theme. These new features can then be shared with anyone else using the theme.
This solution helps teams and sections which need to build or rebuild a site quickly and affordably while staying assured that the site’s quality meets industry user experience, information security and brand standards.
The project is designed to reduce the duplication of website development work across the movement and make it easier for website teams work collaboratively to create a product designed by and for human rights activists. It provides a thoroughly designed and tested product that contains Amnesty’s visual identity* in a CMS so that it can be easily used on a new website. * When used with the Amnesty Brand plugin.
Some examples of additional functionality that might be desired beyond the Humanity WordPress theme.
- CRO, analytics or other tracking systems
- CRM system integrations
- Email marketing systems
- Advocacy / petitions systems
- Comments
- Donations
- User generated content or logins
New features should always be built in a child theme or in separate plugins to avoid breaking the website when updating.
Product Vision
For IS and Amnesty section webmasters of all abilities who require a website. The Humanity WordPress theme by default is a fast, secure and accessible as well as easy to use, deploy and extend by sections and IS teams.
Our product is built on Amnesty global standards which consider design, information security, quality assurance, hosting, development and content.
The Humanity theme and plugins facilitate the sharing of development and content across the movement and has no upfront costs to section users.
Key Features
Here is a list of some of the key features.
- Gutenberg blocks feature
- Block pattern feature
- Global features
- Menu features
- Language features
- Pop In feature
- Basic petition feature
- Petition feature
- Accessibility features
- Sidebar feature
- Location feature
- Text alignment control feature
- Associated topics feature
- RSS feed feature
- By line feature
- Social share feature
- Related content feature
- Search feature
- Analytics features
- Image credit features
- Header feature
- Media settings features
- Taxonomy preference feature
- Sticky Post Feature
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