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 [...]

BuddyPress Video

9 Feb 09
Raanan Bar-Cohen

BuddyPress, a set of plugins which will transform an installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform,  is nearing a 1.0 final release  – scheduled for Thursday February 12th.

We’ve received lots of interest about this project, and to help provide more info we’ve produced a short video with a great overview of BuddyPress and a hint as to what’s possible with this great new platform:

[ Visit BuddyPress.org ]

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  2. art predator February 11th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    wow, that’s great news!

    I get pressured every day several times a day to join Facebook and nobody understands my reluctance! (who wants white bread anyway?)

    I’ve been meaning to get going on the beta but now it looks like I’ll be using the real deal!

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  4. Marco Sgrunt Mattioli March 15th, 2009 at 12:57 am

    BuddyDress (http://www.buddydress.com/) has started to create free dresses (themes) for Buddy Press in order to make community grow up. We’ve just released Facebuddy: the theme that give a facebook style to bp, and we’ releasing soon a new dark one.