Student Life Selects WordPress MU

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:
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Fifty Sites. Ten Months. One CMS.

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 Chooses WordPress

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 [...]

Prologue: Group Communication Using WordPress

28 Jan 08
Raanan Bar-Cohen

We launched a new theme today for WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress called Prologue.

Prologue is a way for “each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks.”

As you can see from the screenshot below and by clicking through to the Prologue demo it’s all about helping teams of people communicate and collaborate in an efficient manner — similar to Twitter but with a focus on groups.

For publishers looking to deploy this kind of tool, Prologue is very easy to use.  Like other themes for WordPress, you can install this on WordPress.com with a single click in your “Presentation” tab, or quickly add it to your themes directory for self-installed WordPress.

And since Prologue is a theme,  it leverage the power of WordPress to provide user management, privacy settings, RSS feeds, Gravatar, and more.

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  2. Barry January 29th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    Nice one, thanks!

    Having some problems on the author page, though:

    “Call to undefined function: get_author_feed_link”
    replaced it with: get_author_rss_link(0, get_the_author_ID(), ”)

    Also, not tagging a post will eventuallly make it unfindable, except through the user’s author page (and probably an optional search widget)?

  3. raanan January 29th, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    @ Barry –

    Thanks.

    The issue you describe is addressed in the latest update. You can read about it here: http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2008/01/29/prologue-update/

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  5. J.R. Jackson September 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    Can this wordpress theme be set up to allow people to post without registering or logging in?

    Thanks

    J.R.

  6. Joseph Scott September 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    WordPress in general isn’t really setup to support anonymous posts. You probably could do that, with some work. Prologue wasn’t designed with that in mind though.

  7. klassified January 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Hi Joseph,

    When I try to add a widget in Prologue, I loose the original tag list.
    Can you please tell me how can I add, for example, a search widget and maintain the tags list?

    Thanks a lot for your help.