Simon Dickson has been blogging about online government, politics and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

 
 
Tuesday 25 May 2010

BNP switches to Drupal

I've written here before about the British National Party's website, and its impressive use of WordPress - and more recently BuddyPress, the add-on which turns it into Facebook. So it's only fair that I note how things have changed in the past few weeks: the site now appears to be running on Drupal, and has - for now at least - abandoned most of the social features which made it so interesting.

The circumstances of the migration seem somewhat, well, chaotic. Webmaster Simon Bennett reportedly pulled the website down a couple of days before polling day - why? It very much depends which account you read. Intellectual property infringement, personal vendettas, a jar of Marmite, commission payments, far-leftist collaboration, a South West Conspiracy... make of it what you will. I'm staying well out of it.

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