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upPrev is a simple plugin that delivers a little bit of New York Times functionality to your WordPress install.
WordPress is a content management system. It’s also a CMS that works well for journalism large and small and whose use for journalism by both professionals and citizens will only continue to grow. Reality check: There are very few great content management systems being used as platforms for journalism. Plenty of newspapers—and broadcast television sites especially—use clumsy systems with feature sets still in the stone ages of the internet. Even worse, these systems are skinned by ugly stylesheets and confusing user interfaces. We wouldn’t want our newspaper pages to be ugly or hard to navigate, so why are so many news websites exactly that?
Joshua Lynch is a product manager of custom WordPress sites and social media consulting for law firms around the world. He enjoys building with WordPress, fiddling with Android, reading on his Kindle, riding his motorcycle or bicycle, and drinking grapefruit juice. He's marrying Clara Ganey Sept. 6, 2014. More…
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