Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Using WordPress as a news website v2 (list of 32 useful plugins)

June 30, 2011 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

William Davis and Lauren Rabaino’s posts about how Bangor Daily News adopted WordPress (and indeed Google Docs*) as part of their publishing workflow (it even feeds InDesign) has inspired me to revisit my own post about using WordPress as a news website. That was a slightly crude list of plugins that might be useful in adding functionality to WordPress required to implement important features for journalism and effective newsroom routines.

We are currently embarking on a redevelopment of a news website for our postgraduate journalism programmes at Bournemouth University, so I welcome any thoughts and suggestions on experiences with the below plugins – or indeed how you have implemented WordPress as a news website in your organisation.

* I remain unconvinced by using Google Docs as part of an online news workflow since it removes the writing process from the hypertext environment of the story (read: digital storytelling). There are other benefits, for sure, including better ability for real-time collaboration and subediting, but I’m not certain those outweigh the negatives.

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Underrated WordPress plugin round-up – Weblog Tools Collection

May 10, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Great plugin suggestions from Klint Finley.

    External link

    Del.ici.us tags: plugins webdesign wordpress

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