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    Eric Ulken 6:43 pm on April 18, 2014
    Tags: The Seattle Times ( 3 ), WordPress   

    Why WordPress?

    Here at The Seattle Times, we’re preparing to replace our decade-old digital CMS with WordPress. Can a free blogging tool power a complex, high-traffic newspaper website? We think so, and we’re not alone.

    Newspapers have long used WordPress to power blogs (as if blog posts were somehow wholly different from articles), but a growing number of “old media” sites have moved their primary digital publishing activity over to WordPress, so we’re in increasingly good company. A few such sites with WordPress at their core:

    • Metro UK, perhaps the largest newspaper site powered entirely by WordPress
    • Bangor Daily News, one of the earliest newspaper WordPress converts
    • New York Observer
    • Germany’s Die Tageszeitung
    • Canada’s National Post and Global News
    • Tribune Broadcasting Sites

    And of course, a much larger number of digital-only news sites — including many that get way more traffic than we do — use WordPress. So it’s not a question of scale, I think, but more a question of culture.

    In our quest for culture change here, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the inspiration we took from Journal Register Company’s 2010 Ben Franklin Project — a bid to publish in print and online using only free tools — and Bangor’s pioneering and well–documented switch to WordPress.

    Want to help us realize our own open-source digital news future? Check out our job openings in technology, design and product management.

    Posted from Seattle, Washington, United States.

     

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