Bangor Daily News completes final switch to WordPress
Wednesday, we pointed the last of our traffic to our WordPress servers. We started planning the transition soon after I started at the BDN in July, and started beta testing the system in late August...
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I wanted to credit a few people who were immensely helpful in getting the site up and running. I’m William P. Davis, online editor at the Bangor Daily News. Todd Benoit is Director of News and New...
View ArticleA quick overview of our editorial workflow
Lauren Rabaino asked on a previous post for a video of our entire workflow. The whole process is actually pretty simple, so it wasn’t hard to record it. Everything starts in Google Docs — that’s where...
View ArticleImporting archives into WordPress
I’m starting with the import process not because it is an exceptionally good place to start when preparing to move a site to WordPress but because it’s one of the few things I got right from the get-go...
View ArticleMarrying Google Docs and WordPress (or really any CMS)
At the BDN, we love WordPress, but we didn’t feel it was the right place to have our reporters working. Even with distraction-free writing, there’s too much cruft that would confuse reporters or that...
View ArticleForm ever follows function, eventually
Our online editor, Will Davis, has been explaining how we flowed text from Google Docs to WordPress to print and created a low-cost, portable front-end system for our newsroom at Bangor Daily News. I...
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