Comments on: Behind the Scenes of Mustang Daily’s New WordPress Website

By: Testing Edit Flow with the Whitman Pioneer | CoPress

Testing Edit Flow with the Whitman Pioneer | CoPress — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0000

[...] all of their posts in WordPress and then copying from the CMS into the InDesign template. While some have gone the route of using spreadsheets to keep track of workflow, we decided to implement Edit Flow, an editorial plugin developed by Mo [...]

By: Reflecting on the first week of the new mustangdaily.net | interact

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:47:10 +0000

[...] 2009: Official launch (For a glimpse into some of the plugins on the back end, read the CoPress post and more on the structural changes in the CICM [...]

By: Lauren Rabaino

Lauren Rabaino — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:09:10 +0000

Thank you, Daniel. I’m downloading Draft Notification Plugin now. Good call! There’s a Wordpress plugin for everything.

I agree on the page peel. I have to leave it up this first week for potential advertisers. It’ll definitely be something we use sparingly.

I owe CoPress much of the credit for the site. Thanks team for helping us follow though with a long-held vision of leaving College Publisher.

(P.S. Any other suggestions are welcomed! Anything to help us improve).

By: Daniel Bachhuber

Daniel Bachhuber — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:54:37 +0000

Excellent post, Lauren. It’s really interesting to hear the behind the scenes of what’s making the new Mustang Daily tick. A couple bits of immediate feedback. There’s a plugin called, drumroll please, Draft Notification Plugin for WordPress. I installed it for a previous project and, although I think I had to modify it just a tiny bit, it will remove the step of the reporter having to email the copy editor when the story is done. I’ve also been compiling notes on things that could be improved in the admin for workflow (b/c there might be a project in the near future to build a better plugin…) and would enjoy hearing feedback on other features you might want.

Secondly, I think the page peel is pretty cool but should be used sparingly. You might use it for occasional, high-price advertisements, or also when you want to make sure that people see a specific, unique piece of content.

Excellent job on the site!