This blog is aimed at helping publishers get the most out of WordPress. We’ll cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.
Sam Guzik over on CoPress.org details the successful relaunch of Student Life, the “independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis”, on the WordPress MU platform:
In their evaluation of various platform choices they concluded:
“Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow [...]
I’ve been chatting with the folks at Tierra Innovation and WNET.ORG (Channel Thirteen in New York) on their impressive collaboration utilizing WordPress MU as a CMS for WNET.ORG’s network of high-traffic websites:
Using WordPress MU’s built-in features along with custom themes and plugins such as WPDB Profiling, they made it easier and much cheaper for WNET.ORG [...]
The Ford Story is a recently launched site committed to making Ford’s progress towards getting new high-quality, fuel-efficient cars, and trucks on the road today transparent and open. The site is completely powered by WordPress and uses WordPress as a CMS to deliver a wide variety of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.
We talked [...]
Revista CA, the official magazine of the Chilean Architects Association, uses WordPress to power their official site.
David Basulto of Plataforma Networks lead the development of the site and shares his thoughts:
Since it has been published since the 60s, it´s a repository of the Chilean architecture legacy, and we are working now on getting funds to scan all the older issues and upload them to the web using WordPress. It also features a small “blogish” section on which we post the subjects for the future magazines, and people discuss them, send articles and projects, ending in people feeling more connected to the magazine and helping the editors in collecting the material for each edition.
(Emphasis mine.)
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