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It's a sign of how far WordPress has come, that I find myself noting the Telegraph's transfer of its blogging platform to WordPress purely because I feel I should... and not because it's especially exciting. I mean, if you were going to set up a large-scale public blogging community, why on earth wouldn't you use [...] read on »

On reflection, if you're going to put two of the most forward-thinking people in e-government into the same department, great things are probably to be expected. BERR (as was)'s Neil and DIUS (as was)'s Steph put their heads together on Monday afternoon, and on Wednesday, they launched a new corporate website for the newly-created Department [...] read on »

Today's focus has been mostly on bbPress, the discussion forum cousin of WordPress. I've played with it a few times in the past, but never yet had cause to use it properly or professionally. But when a call came from a client last week, asking to forum up an existing WordPress-based site, I ignored the [...] read on »

A couple of interesting developments in online political campaigning in the last few days. LabourHome has finally had its long-needed rebuild and refresh - moving, hurrah!, to WordPress. And Libertas are offering a Flash-based tool for user-generated adverts. read on »

There's a new look to NickClegg.com, 'the official Leader's site for the Liberal Democrats', powered - as noted previously - by WordPress. And it isn't yellow, not in the slightest. In fact, it took me quite a while even to spot the party's bird logo, concealed in each instance behind signatures or other graphic elements. This [...] read on »

I thought it was about time I compiled a list of all the UK (central) government web projects I know of, which use WordPress. Partly because I'm meeting some people during the week to talk about it; partly to start preparation for the session I've volunteered to give at July's WordCamp UK. This is off [...] read on »

Over the last few weeks, I've been working with Ordnance Survey to produce a WordPress version of their new business strategy, published today. As you'll immediately spot, it's another piece of work based on Steph Gray's Commentariat theme, including some of the tweaks I did for BERR's Low Carbon Strategy. As I write this, I've literally [...] read on »

I didn't write about Mash The State when I first heard about it, because the ambitions seemed embarrassingly modest: getting each council in the country to offer an RSS feed by Christmas. In 2009? - seriously? And then I note that, of the three e-government super-sites - Directgov, Businesslink, NHS Choices, annual budget approx £30m each [...] read on »

Tickets have just gone on sale for this year's second WordCamp UK. And if the promise of hearing me banging on about WordPress isn't quite enough to tempt you to spend a July weekend in Cardiff, here's some news that might swing it: Matt Mullenweg, basically 'Mr WordPress', is coming too. I'm also proud to confirm [...] read on »

So many new websites appearing at the moment, you'd think it was the end of the financial year or something. The new DIUS site is very pretty, although I hear it wasn't cheap. There's a new site for the Ministry of Justice, which (if I'm totally honest) feels a bit dated, and clearly has several [...] read on »