WordPress has just won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. In addition to popular vote, judges for this award included Bryan Ruby, who runs CMSReport.com, jQuery creator John Resig, Deane Barker of Blend Interactive, and Karen Koombs, Head of Web Services at the University of Houston Libraries [...]
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I recently received the below message from Nicholas A. Kraft, an assistant professor in the department of computer science at UA. I share it here to add to the ongoing discussion of CMS options and to document another success story of an open-source CMS implementation at UA:
Hi Andy,
I just happened across the WebTide post about [...]
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If you’re tired of all of the tag clouds you see out there and just want a simple list that you can browse through, then this bit of code is for you. In WordPress, there are convenient functions to list all tags (and categories) outside of The Loop in an unordered list. However, [...]
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As I mentioned in my previous post, the UA News sites have a few custom functions that improve upon certain things WordPress does (or does not do) by default. One such function is automatically adding a link to the captions for a high quality image. When a user decides to link the thumbnail of [...]
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Today we have relaunched UA News as well as Dialog, Dialog Extra, and Research Magazine. This presents a major technological shift because these suite of sites are all running on WordPress. These sites blur the lines compared to previous endeavors by sharing common user-focused design and functionality as well as spreading our best content across [...]
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For many web developers, the idea of transitioning to a content management system (CMS) is both appealing and frightening. It’s appealing because of how easy it would be to manage once everything is converted. It’s frightening because when you have a large, mostly static site, transitioning to a database-driven CMS requires a lot of work, [...]
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So we’re kicking off an exploratory phase into selecting and centrally supporting a UA-wide standardized open-source content management system. As time goes by, it’s more and more apparent that our campus as a whole needs a central option for maintaining web content, particularly since we’re so decentralized in terms of how web sites are created and [...]
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