A daily newspaper site built in WordPress

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 [...]

Trinity Mirror’s new local site is… a blog.

Trinity Mirror’s Buckinghamshire Advertiser has relaunched its web site. It’s very cleanly designed. But there’s something significant that is unusual about it — it’s a blog. The front page is three recent stories presented in reverse-chronological order, with each one allowing comments. There’s a list of categories, RSS feeds, and even a tag cloud. Each [...]