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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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Very exciting news that Number10.gov.uk, the official site of the UK Prime Minister’s Office, has relaunched their site using WordPress.
Designed 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 government office as well as sporting a seamless integration of other services like Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter:
For a few notes on the project be sure to read Simon’s blog post.
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I think the IQ of the World has just gone up by several orders of magnitude. Certainly it makes writing a letter to number 10 so much easier. I see there are some very hasty entries that are a bit silly like make everything free etc.