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.
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:
“Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow [...]
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 [...]
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Today’s car shoppers go online to research their dream car before ever stepping foot in a dealership. So it’s no surprise that auto sites have become some of the most engaging and visually impressive sites out there.
One such site is Ford’s Global Auto Shows powered by WordPress:
Sporting ajax comments, galleries, hot topics, and extensive use of video, this site is a great example of the flexibility of WordPress and top notch design work.
[Visit Ford Global Auto Shows]
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That’s a very nice implementation of WP!
I recently referred to this site in a presentation on the flexibility/viability of WordPress for business. Frankly, it’s one of the better “big business” WP sites I have seen. Glad to know Ford has a few WP geeks on staff!