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Harvard Gazette Selects WordPress

4 Mar 10
Raanan Bar-Cohen

The Harvard Gazette, which is Harvard’s official newspaper, has recently relaunched their site, and is now powered by WordPress:

Highlighting faculty research, administrative staff, students, and events – this is a great example of a complete site that you can build with WordPress. Congrats to the team at Harvard for building such as great site.

It’s also exactly in sync with the feedback we are hearing from the publishing community. Many of you have shared with us your exciting plans to take advantage of the flexibility and power of WordPress to build your next-generation full sites on this platform. It’s going to make for a very exciting next few months !

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5 Responses to “Harvard Gazette Selects WordPress”

  1. Taylor Darcy March 4th, 2010 at 11:29 pm Reply

    That’s really great! It’s great to see such a prestige institution using something so great. I’m going to check it out.

  2. Chris Martin March 5th, 2010 at 9:38 am Reply

    Yes, I would defiantly agree wordpress is easy to use and allows for quite a diversity of uses.

  3. Christopher Murray March 7th, 2010 at 6:17 am Reply

    Here’s another site that uses WP as a CMS:

    http://www.directorship.com/

  4. Mike March 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm Reply

    Good to see another “Gazette” get into the WordPress game – welcome! We’ve had WordPress as our platform since August ’09 and it has been a tremendous cost saver and provided us with vastly more flexibility. http://www.gazetteonline.com/.

  5. Catherine March 14th, 2010 at 1:57 pm Reply

    I made the right decision to switch from blogger to WordPress. Yay!

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