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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Big news in the tech world today with Microsoft formally entering a bid to buy Yahoo.
Scanning through the various coverage, it was obvious that many large publishers were using their blogs to quickly cover this fast-moving story.
A great example was the Wall Street Journal’s take on it and the comprehensive use of blogs ( all powered by WordPress ). They linked to many of their blogs including Kara Swisher’s post on allthingsd.com, the BizTech blog, and the Wealth Report blog.
As you can see from the screen capture below (I marked the blog links with red arrows), the blog coverage was a big piece of the overall presentation:
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I was impressed that Kara and John Paczkowski linked to each other’s post. That circular reference would only be possible with careful coordination
Hi,
Kara’s blog uses WordPress, but do the two other WSJ blogs you link to use WP as well?
Hey Chris –
Yes, Kara’s blog is hosted with us in the VIP program on WordPress.com: http://wordpress.com/vip-hosting/
The several other WSJ blogs are hosted on the Dow Jones infrastructure using the self-hosted WordPress. If you do a quick view-source you’ll see the various WordPress references.
I think it’s all about the community, this big traditional publications are getting the need of a community.
Hi Raanan Bar-Cohen,
Thanks.
Will the MSN use WP to publish their for-print news articles, too, next?
[By the way, your link pop-ups are annoying, in my view.]
Best wishes,
Chris Masse
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@ Chris –
> Will the MSN use WP to publish their for-print news
> articles, too, next?
There are lots of large publishers out there who are using WP for the entirety of their publishing efforts – including the print articles — or are considering moving in that direction. Britain’s largest regional paper, Express and Star, is one such example: http://www.expressandstar.com .
>[By the way, your link pop-ups are annoying, in my view.]
Ya, some people really like them, other do not. If you click the little link in the upper right corner of the preview window, you can disable it for this and all other sites.
cheers.
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