1. WORDPRESS: CMS Mindy McAdams Department of Journalism University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, USA

2. News organizations use WordPress To create separate, stand-alone websites for specialtopics or coverage For individual stories that are long and have many visual elements, such as videos To run their entire news website And more! 3. WordPress.org Open-source software (free) Lots of functionality, and lots of developers worldwide Thousands of templates (themes) and plug-ins Lots of control Full-featured comment moderation Full-featured spam filtering for comments Multiple, separate WordPress sites can be added toyour domain(Well discuss WordPress.com at the end) 4. http://wordpress.org/ 5. http://vi.wordpress.org/ 6. Case: KPLU A public radio station in Seattle, USA. A news organization. Has a traditional news website (next slide). URL http://kplu.org/ 7. Case: KPLU KPLU also has a separate website called Quirksee. The name is an odd word made up from quirk, which means a habit or behavior that is strange or unusual. KPLU says Quirksee is a community of discovery. The site focuses on Seattle, the city where KPLU isbased. KPLU invites the public to contribute story ideas to Quirksee. URL http://www.quirksee.org/ 8. All of the small photos are clickable. Each one can be seen large, in a slideshow viewer. 9. WordPress can also be used to quickly deploy a micro site to aggregate all coverage of a big breaking story, to track a long-term ongoing issue, to cover an event. 10. Screen capture from July 9, 2013 11. Case: The Washington Post Uses WordPress software to create many different kinds of micro sites, all under the washingtonpost.com domain: A breaking news blog for new unrest in Egypt (2013) An interactive graphic about the U.S. Supreme Court decisionallowing gay people to marry A long narrative story about a U.S. bicycle racer who hopes to erase the shame of Lance Armstrong A photographic journey through the presidential election year 2012 12. Videos, maps, photos and other graphics are integrated in a layout like a magazines. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2013/02/27/cyclings-road-forward/ 13. RUN is a visual story about the entire 2012 U.S. election year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/supergrid/run/ 14. RUN is a visual story about the entire 2012 U.S. election year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/supergrid/run/ 15. RUN is a visual story about the entire 2012 U.S. election year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/supergrid/run/ 16. Case: CNN The global TV news network uses WordPress to run eachone of CNNs many different blogs. Also to run what is essentially a micro-site for each news program. 17. Case: Global News The site globalnews.ca is the main website for a national TV news program in Canada. The entire site runs on WordPress. Most stories include at least one embedded video. The site is updated many times each day. Reporters across Canada contribute to the site they can post news from any location. Reporters in 3 foreign bureaus Beijing, London and Washington also upload to WordPress. Some reporters post updates with the WordPress mobile app. 18. The WordPress difference Some people think WordPress is a blogging platform, likeBlogger / Blogspot. The site WordPress.com allows individuals to have free blogs. However, WordPress.org is different, and The WordPress software (which is 100 percent free) can be downloaded and installed on your own Web server. You have complete control. Your software team can modify WordPress. You can add free or paid themes and plug-ins to make aWordPress site do almost anything you can imagine. 19. Edit Flow is a free plug-in for WordPress that provides many helpful tools for editing teams.http://editflow.org/ 20. WORDPRESS: CMS Mindy McAdams mmcadams@jou.ufl.edu Twitter: @macloohttp://bit.ly/mmwpbasics