WordPress is the worlds most popular blogging software.
Content Structure
Must plan ahead for content structure. Many think WordPress isn’t capable of doing things such as departments, features, columns and sections. WordPress templates let you to filter by category name or category number. Start with a clean and logical system to simply this process. Ability to set up RSS feed for each category. Sections are set up with slightly different color schemes. Ability to display related articles on an article page left nav.
Category for front page, items classified here show up on home page. Create an e-newsletter by creating a category for stories you wish to appear in your newsletter. Keep category slugs short, but descriptive.
To change automatically generated category ID numbers, you must go into MySQL and update two tables.
Editorial Workflow
Normal editorial workflow includes Story Creation, Copy Editing, Line Editing, Publishing. You must extend WordPress plug-ins and techniques to enable each of the workflow steps to work in WordPress.
Plug-ins to enable real-world editorial workflow
- Custom Field Template
- Get Custom Field Values
- Co-Authors Plus
- Capability Manager
- Peters Collaboration E-mails
- In-Series (if story is part of series)
- Custom Field Images
- Simple Pull Quote
- Peters Post Notes (internal notes which never get published)
- Scissors
- NKMImageField
- Remind Me (for cross references within your site, if you change permalink structure, links continue to work)
- Public Post Review (send proofing link before posting it on the site)
- Suma (to allow paid subscriptions, this one isn’t free, but worth the price)
One of the big limitation is the WordPress loop, or the text in the body of the post.
WordPress Limitations and Solutions
Slides at http://bit.ly/D2WCPSB
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