WordPress has come a long way in a short time to become the content management system of choice for many. I use it to power this blog and for a range of student publications at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. This infographic illustrates the power of the platform: The Power of WordPress by Tech King

At the AEJMC annual conference in Denver, Aug 4-7, I am taking part in a session entitled Planning, Launching and Running a Convergent Student News Website. I will be explaining how we created and launched the student publication, TheThunderbird.ca, at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. We use WordPress for the site, using a number of plugins to extend its functionality. Here are the ones I will mention in my presentation:

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

I’ve written before about using WordPress as a cost-effective and easy-to-use content management system. Part of the appeal is the wide range of professional looking designs available online, many of them free, or for just a fistful of dollars. The team at WordPress itself have now released a new theme dubbed Prologue, which they liken to a group Twitter. What’s interesting about this theme is that it allows contributors to