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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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A fast growing trend that we’ve seen of late is the adoption of WordPress for “CMS projects” where WordPress is being leveraged in building-out entire sites that are not necessarily blog-centric.
A great example of this trend is the recent launch of the Wall Street Journal’s WSJ. Magazine, powered by WordPress:
It’s great to see the Wall Street Journal Digital team leveraging their in-house expertise with WordPress to build out WSJ. Magazine.
The WSJ sites powered by WordPress now include the main WSJ blogs (mentioned previously here), WordPress.com VIP site AllThingsD.com, and the new Small Business How-To Guide just launched using WordPress as well.
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Its interesting to see a high-profile publication like the WSJ using WP for content management. I’d love to hear some of their needs and challenges that led to the decisions to use WP and how it is working out for them.
WordPress is great for CMS projects. I created a site for some friends called VeganDivine.us, it’s a Washington based Vegan gifts & gift basket company. Their catalog is all done in WordPress.
We did something very similar for our travel blog (http://www.tripquips.com). Thanks for the great work.
Glad to hear it, I’ve been using WordPress for some time even though I can hand code a site WordPress makes it so easy to add information and make changes.
WordPress is king, period! This is just the beginning of stories like this with major players utilizing the power of open source technology. Out of the box, nothing holds a candle to it, and the customization and flexibility of what WordPress brings to the table.
I feel as though WordPress in the running for the tip of the iceburg of publishing platform. It is very user friendly and powerful at the same time. It does not suprise me to see the Wall Street Journal’s Digital team take advantage of this tool.