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 [...]
This New York Times article gives some interesting background on The Page, A Time Inc site that’s run by Mark Halperin and provides real-time politics and election coverage. The Page has rapidly gained a very large readership since it’s launch 6 months ago. What’s interesting from a WordPress point of view is that even though The Page is tightly integrated into the main Time.com site, it’s actually 100% WordPress based and hosted as part of the WordPress.com VIP program.
I’d be interested in reading this. The link you provided is broken.
Here is the correct link to the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21halperin.html?scp=1&sq=%22the+page%22&st=nyt
@ Mike Mc.
Thanks — the link is now corrected
Question: How do you setup the name, e-mail, and website fields in a row like this in your comment section? Every other WordPress theme has them stacked on top of each other, which wastes space.
Erm never mind, I think I figured it out. Thanks for the design inspiration, haha.
For the benefit of anyone else who might wonder, the comment form’s really simple — we just put the three text fields into a table and gave the three TDs equal widths. The same thing can be accomplished with floats, but I wanted the form’s structure to stay intact in the case of a user browsing without stylesheets.
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