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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Health.com Launches New TalkPress VIP Forum

19 May 09

Health.com has launched the Ask the Natural Living Experts forum hosted on the new TalkPress VIP service:
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This new discussion area enables Helath.com’s visitors to interact with healthy living experts in a forum and Q&A environment. This forum site also runs our anti-spam service Akismet and integrates seamlessly with the other Health.com WordPress.com VIP blogs. That means visitors to Health.com sites such as Healthy Living, are already registered for the forums and can begin interacting immediately.

For a bit more info on the technical workings of TalkPress head over to Sam’s post on that topic. And for more details on the building of this forum project, the lead consultant Watershed Studio has posted a few thoughts.

[ Visit Ask The Natural Living Expert ]

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Comment and Trackback Spam Fighting Tip: Use Akismet

18 Jan 08

Blogs are a perfect way to spark conversation and engage your audience in a meaningful exchange of ideas.

It’s great when people participate by commenting, and when readers begin to regard to the comments area of the blog as a must-read. But having spam show up in the comments area is the quickest way to kill a conversation and turn your readers off.

As you can see in this chart below comment and trackback spam is growing at a very quick pace.
spam chart

A great solution to this web spam problem is to use our Akismet service. The Akismet service is a “a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.”

Lots of information here about how Akismet works, and if you are using WordPress.com or are hosted with us in the VIP program then you are already using Akismet since it’s bundled in. For those of you hosting WordPress on your own servers, or at a hosting provider, Aksimet is likely already installed you just have to enable it with your WordPress.com API key. If it isn’t installed, you can download the Akismet plugin, and you’ll be up and running in no time.

Akismet is also available for many other publishing platforms and forum stoftware.

Also worth noting that there are other tremendous plugins for WordPress that fight spam using a variety of methods. You can browse those other plugins at the WordPress.org plugins directory.

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