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 [...]
Most people can’t imagine writing one book. Yet, bestselling author Danielle Steel has written 107 of them. One or more of her novels have been on the The New York Times Bestsellers list for more than 390 consecutive weeks and now Danielle is adding to all of that and starting a blog.

Just over a month ago, Danielle jumped into the blogosphere and posted her first post on her new blog. We were delighted to hear that she chose WordPress to power her blog and has been using it successfully since then.
In her introductory post, Danielle said that a blog is like a diary and “seems like a wonderful place to share my thoughts with you, or what I do.” Danielle’s blog undoubtedly provides readers with a unique view into the personal life and thoughts of one of the most prolific and accomplished modern novelists.
I really dig the theme…