Reading the College Web Editor post this morning about lightweight Wordpress development going on at Concordia St Paul University, …it made me jealous.
“Their CMS was bulky and not friendly enough to carry the project. So they turned to Wordpress. The result is the beautiful Freshly Squeezed, a student blogger site.”
“…Next, they tackled something a bit different: a magazine site. Adding Flickr photos integration, cleverly using categories and custom fields, they put together Concordia St. Paul Magazine.
The categories control where an article goes (Feature Stories, Faculty News, etc.) and which issue they belong to (like Summer 2007). The custom fields store information about cover photos. It’s a very simplistic set up, but it serves the purpose.”
I’m sure many university web teams are working with Wordpress on all manner of projects. We are. Our magazine is a Wordpress powered site, and so are all of our redesigned department web sites. Moving forward, it’s our base cms platform. All manner of custom field integration and top-level control across over 50 sites and growing every day.
Seeing the beautiful work implemented by the Concordia St Paul developers though, is inspiring. And to know that we are using the same tools, ..is a motivator for me. It shows what’s possible.
Drew Geraets and Thomas Knoll, are both developers at Concordia St Paul. Those blogs are worth a look. I’m adding them to my feed reader, thats for sure. Great work guys.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Nice to see blog platforms being used for magazines. We recently put our alumni magazine site into Movable Type, which we use for our blogs at UMR. Both MT and Wordpress seem to function well as CMSes.