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 [...]
One of the great many things about WordPress is the vast support for languages and truly international community of contributors. The WordPress community continues to create many language specific Themes, translation files, and support documentation.
Weblog Tools Collection recently highlighted that self-installed WordPress now supports Kazakh – bringing the total number of languages supported to 58.
Similarly, WordPress.com also has extensive language support, and features language specific sections like the Blogs of the Day.
Thanks for linking to the article Raanan. As I mentioned in the post I wrote, it just goes to show how WordPress has international roots and there are fans of the project in all corners of the globe.