Inside one of the world’s biggest deployments. Content creation is the lifeblood of publishing houses like international behemoth News Corp.
But nowadays you can’t break Watergate without an efficient, flexible back-end content management platform.
In 2014 News Corp Australia found itself at an impasse: news consumers had long moved into the mobile world, but the company’s legacy content management system didn’t support publishing on mobile platforms, or continuous deployment.
Any changes created a lot of risk, and the IT team was restricted to a monthly release cycle – "entirely out of keeping with the needs of an innovative publisher", according to CTO Alisa Bowen.
That year it decided the time had come to introduce a new, fit-for-purpose platform that could be adaptable and scalable in supporting News Corp Australia’s more than 30 websites and thousands of articles published daily.
A technical proof-of-concept led to the decision to rip out the old CMS and replace it with popular open source content management platform WordPress VIP.
The main reason for this choice was that most of News Corp’s local editors and journalists were already familiar with the platform, which
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14257/how-news-corp-australia-made-wordpress-scale
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