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6 presidential candidates use WordPress as their CMS

Ron Paul WordPress website

WordPress is the CMS of choice for presidential campaign websites (six out of the 10 declared Republican candidates) and every single candidate is using an open source content management system (Drupal powers the rest).

in Design & Dev & Themes

Using WordPress for microsites, small projects

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pipeline

WordPress isn’t a catch-all solution for news organization’s websites, but it is an excellent candidate to power small projects or microsites dedicated to big stories.

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Interview: Why Poynter redesigned its website on WordPress, open source

Poynter Website Redesign

The new Poynter is more social; it brings more blogs into the stable, encourages reaction and conversation via Disqus comments and places related info next to content with a double right column.

in Design & Dev & Tutorials

How to display subpages of a WordPress page with their custom meta

Seattle Photographer Clara Ganey Portfolio

How to display the subpages of a WordPress page with their meta, such as title, publication date, featured thumbnail, custom fields, excerpts and, of course, permalinks to the subpages.

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Journalists: 10 sites you might be surprised to learn use WordPress

Rally for Sanity and/or Fear powered by WordPress

From blog to blog network to full-blown sites, WordPress is behind these 10 notable web destinations, including Playboy and The Rally to Restore Sanity.

in College Media & Just Journalism

For college newspapers, the importance of platform is often overrated

College newspapers are often limited by their own staff’s knowledge on web publishing, though the platform (usually College Publisher) is often blamed while very rarely used to its full extent.