WordPress Publisher Blog
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.
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 [...]
Intruders.tv Web TV Network Chooses WordPress
Intruders.tv, an international web tv network, recently relaunched their globally focused channels, having switched to WordPress MU as their publishing platform of choice.
Since they started out two years ago, the Intruders team have been bringing high-quality, high-profile tech/Internet interviews to the world with HD video, in a number of languages, from a refreshing breadth of [...]
Tips on Optimizing Performance for Self-Installed WordPress
Michael Biven, CTO of Laughing Squid, wrote a great post highlighting how to optimize your self-installed WordPress setup:
Taking responsibility of your WordPress site by keeping it up to date to the latest version and managing it’s load on the server hosting it is just as important as the content you’re writing for it. Security updates, [...]
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I’ve received a few emails asking if we could showcase a magazine publisher using WordPress in an innovative way.
Arena Magazine, published by Emap, is one such publisher. Promoted as “Britain’s original style magazine – for men” (content is PG-13), their development agency – New Media Maze – highlights why they selected WordPress:
We designed and built the blog using backend technology WordPress, having considered several options including Typepad (the technology behind this blog. [New Media Maze has since switched to WordPress]) and Blogger, but quickly found that WordPress far outstrips the others in terms of features and maniability (is that a real word?! Computer says no…). WordPress is open source and there’s a big community around the technology so when you get stuck, help is always close at hand
You can read the full case study here (case study is rated G).
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[...] to the heads up over on the WordPress Publishers blog, I see that Arena Magazine is now powered by [...]
[...] by New Media Maze ( profiled earlier on their work for Arena Magazine ) with collaboration from Simon Dickson, the site features a host of ways of communicating with the [...]