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Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
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1) ecreeds, October 8, 2008 at 7:15 a.m. [Link]
Wordpress can be used as CMS (content management system) it has everything you would to build a website, further if something is missing you can rely on their great developer community to have built a plugin to overcome any such short comings.
You can even build a high end news website on Wordpress using one those magazine style themes.
2) Scot Hacker, October 28, 2008 at 4:16 p.m. [Link]
@ecreeds - We do a ton of that here at the J-School. WordPress is the basis for nearly all of our publication sites (we have more than 40 WP installations in total). It's ideal for anything remotely resembles a publication. However it's not suited as a CMS for sites that have custom datatypes that don't fit the Headline/Body model (yes there are custom meta fields, and these can be very helpful, but definitely have their limits). And you can't use it to build much in the way of custom back-end tools.
The key is in knowing where WordPress leaves off and when it's time to pick up a more sophsticated / full-fledged CMS.
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