Readers of this blog will know that I am a fan of WordPress. It is the content management system that runs Reportr.net and last semester we moved the UBC School of Journalism online publication, TheThunderbird.ca, to WordPress MU.

WordPress offers a powerful yet easy to use publishing system, with a great deal of flexibility, providing a viable alternative to the system used by many college publications in the US, College Publisher. And it has the added attraction of being low-cost.

Temple News, out of Temple University, has switched over to WordPress and Sean Blanda explains the process and some of the challenges along the way.

As Bryan Murley adds, “this information does is provide backup for one of my assertions about why people might not want to set up their own in-house web presence”.

WordPress is evolving from a blogging platform to a content management system, thanks to the support of a community that is constantly finding new ways of adding new features and developing new themes.

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