Community Dashboards in ClearPoint Strategy are public-facing (or intranet) websites that showcase data from ClearPoint. These dashboards are designed to communicate progress, measure performance, and engage stakeholders on key initiatives or strategic priorities.

A Community Dashboard is a custom-built public-facing (or intranet) website that leverages the WordPress platform to showcase your data from ClearPoint. More broadly, a Community Dashboard is an excellent way to tell a story with your data, whether to your employees or your citizens.

A Community Dashboard demonstrates an awareness and transparency around your own progress, strengths, and weaknesses. The custom format allows you to tell a story with your data in a format that is digestible and appealing to citizens, and can even give you a competitive edge as a forward-thinking city. The benefit of a ClearPoint Community Dashboard is that it pulls information directly from your ClearPoint account, so you don’t have to waste time and generate errors by duplicating your information.

We have built a ClearPoint WordPress Plugin that allows WordPress to connect with the ClearPoint API and display information using short codes called (unsurprisingly) shortcodes.

While HTML publishing is a powerful way to showcase your ClearPoint information in a web format, you have more control over customization with a Community Dashboard. The dashboard is fully mobile responsive and allows you to customize the entire look and feel of your dashboard to match your city’s website.

Updating the dashboard takes just a few clicks in WordPress. The dashboard is not instantaneously updated after making changes in ClearPoint. This is an advantage in that it gives you the opportunity to review information internally before republishing.

ClearPoint will host the dashboard for a small annual fee. Hosting includes creating backups of the data, installing themes and plugins, and updating and testing the most recent versions of these themes and plugins (in addition to WordPress itself) to ensure no disruption to content.

The Divi theme is currently the only theme that is fully compatible with the ClearPoint WordPress Plugin and ClearPoint Content Generator. Divi is one of the most popular themes by Elegant Themes, and is really flexible.

The ClearPoint Content Generator is a Chrome extension that makes it easy to reference ClearPoint information in a format that can be read by WordPress. This is only relevant if you are building your own dashboard or planning to make your own annual updates to the information displayed.

Dashboard construction is priced per day. There is also an annual fee for maintenance and hosting. Contact us at [email protected] or 866-568-0590 for more information.

We start off by learning more about your needs and your design preferences. We first create and review prototypes in a static format. Once we have signoff on these prototypes, we mock up a live, clickable version of each page type in WordPress. Then, with signoff on these page mockups, we create templates and build out the rest of your dashboard.

You’ll want to have approval on the dashboard designs from members of your leadership, your communications team, your board or council, and anyone else who has sway in the design of the site. If you are planning to build your own dashboard or make updates in WordPress, the individual leading these efforts should have knowledge of HTML, CSS, and WordPress.

Of course! Check out some of our clients’ dashboards here.