Thursday, 26 June 2008, 12:18
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"Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence."
Saturday, 10 May 2008, 07:53
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The IHT has come up with a way to fix widows and orphans on the web by automatically adding a non-breaking space between the last two words of every headline and every paragraph. A WordPress plugin gives blogs the same functionality.
Saturday, 2 February 2008, 10:56
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Puffbox’s new Wales Office site is built in Wordpress: "News releases, speeches, publications and FOI disclosures are all entered as ‘blog posts’, distinguished using categories. All the more static, corporate stuff is done as ‘pages’."
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:09
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"[Teaching Dreamweaver] not very relevant to journalism, , because it does not include a robust content management system! … Focusing on Dreamweaver teaches exactly the wrong mindset for online journalism: that your Web site is mainly an island unto its
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 13:46
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"Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress, [revealed that Automattic had raised a whopping $29.5 million in a Series B Round of funding, including a strategic investment from The New York Times Co."
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 11:25
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Nik Silver looks at the argument that big publishing could be done with ‘lighweight’ CMSs like Wordpress and asks ‘what has the Guardian’s big CMS ever done for us"? Lots, it seems…
Friday, 7 December 2007, 10:02
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"TheThunderbird.ca showcases the work of the students on the core Multiplatform Journalism course that I lead at the J-school. The site is run on an installation of Wordpress MU …"
Shropshire Star crowdsourcing fuel prices
Friday, 16 November 2007, 12:06
The Shrophsire Star is the latest UK regional newspaper to experiment with ‘crowdsourcing’ on its web site.
Last week, the Midlands News Association title asked online readers to report the price of petrol in their area. The Star has been plotting the results on a Google Map embedded on its site.
The experiment is similar to the [...]
A daily newspaper site built in WordPress
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 17:18
Britain’s largest paid-circulation regional newspaper, the Express & Star in Wolverhampton, is using the free open source blogging software WordPress as the content management system of its web site, which had 162,820 unique users in April.
Its Midlands News Association sister title, the Shropshire Star (95,612 unique users, 4/2007 ABCe) uses a similar WordPress template.
The [...]
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 15:45
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Some at the Telegraph will be happy to see the old CMS go: "When free blogging software like Wordpress can churn out a site with little or no training people are amazed to find they have to dig around in bare XML to get a news story online." (Amen.)
Thursday, 19 July 2007, 19:23
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"Wordpress has created a Facebook application that lets you post to your blog directly from Facebook, and access much of your blog content from Facebook as well."
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 18:53
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"I don’t come across many small-scale websites which couldn’t be done at least as well, or probably better, in WordPress. And now they’re introducing a proper workflow element, the middle market may be up for grabs too."
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