Just a brief post to highlight Stephen Hale's write-up about WordPress usage at the Department of Health, answering the question I posed in a tweet last week:

Just how many WordPress based sites is @hmshale running over at @dhgovuk?

... to which the answer is, one or two more than I had spotted.

It's all Steph Gray's handiwork, commissioned through Steria, with a child theme of the default Twenty Ten. I'm sure Steph would agree that it isn't pushing the technology's boundaries too hard; but it doesn't need to. Stephen's team's needs have been met, allowing them to spin off high-quality subsites, quickly and efficiently, when requirements land on his desk - and indeed, Stephen observes: 'I think the theme will exceed our expectations for it.' I look forward to Steph's write-up of the work; it's highly unusual for him not to have posted something by now.

There's a very interesting sign-off to the piece, too:

I don’t need to tell you that using a straightforward publishing tool like WordPress is fairly pleasing. Having dipped a toe in, it’s tempting to go a bit further than we originally planned.

Whatever could he mean?