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Museums using Wordpress as CMS?

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By Terry Burton - Posted on 22 April 2010

Are there any museums out there using Wordpress as a CMS? We are just starting to investigate and I would love to see some examples. Thanks, Terry

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Kajsa Hartig's picture
Good question
Submitted by Kajsa Hartig on April 23, 2010 - 12:38pm.

I am very interested as well.

Kajsa Hartig
Digital Navigator, New media
Nordiska museet
Stockholm, Sweden

Mia Ridge's picture
We're using it
Submitted by Mia Ridge on April 23, 2010 - 11:53am.

We're using WordPress as a supplementary CMS to support user interactions with content - it'll store blog style content from the museum, and all user comments, votes, polls, etc, regardless of whether they were about content on the WordPress sections or in our main CMS.

 

WordPress is certainly an easy win for some situations - our use above is more specialised.  What kind of site did you have in mind?

 

cheers, Mia

bheller's picture
wordpress as CMS
Submitted by Beth Heller on April 25, 2010 - 11:58am.

We are redesigning our entire website on a wordpress platform, integrating Koha (we're in the migration and testing phase) and probably Omeka.  The sticker right now is what to use for our member database - whether Koha is extensible beyond library purposes, or if we need something else. We currently use iMis.

Anybody doing any of that?

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Wordpress vs. Drupal discussion
Submitted by Terry Burton on April 24, 2010 - 6:08pm.

Very helpful, thanks!