Tuesday, 27 June 2017

Moving Largest UK Newspaper To WordPress, Building Custom Tools


Powerful and intuitive, the WordPress editorial and content management interface is also extremely flexible. It has been customized to match varied and sophisticated workflows for enterprise media and marketing teams all over the world. Last month at the Big WP Meetup in London, John Blackbourn (@johnbillion) of VIP agency partner Human Made presented highlights of a major customization project for The Sun and its sister publications, The Irish Sun and The Scottish Sun. The Sun is the largest newspaper in the UK by circulation, and second-largest by online audience. The customization work was just one piece of a larger replatforming initiative that moved The Sun to WordPress.com VIP from a print-based CMS. This was a massive undertaking, and involved moving 10 years worth of content — 400,000 articles a terabyte of images.
John’s talk focused on the interface Human Made built to match the editorial workflow of the three publications.
Requirements and Discovery
Highlights from the Sun’s editorial requirements included:
Editors need to quickly and frequently alter the content and the layout of the home page, which can change as often as every ten minutes
Complete, visually
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15416/moving-largest-uk-newspaper-to-wordpress-building-custom-tools




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