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Welcome to the CoPress Wiki-- a collaborative resource for student news organizations. Our goals for this part of our website, or at least to begin with, are to collect the best plugins, themes, and tutorials for the most popular open source CMSes out there, and to also compile a directory of the student news organizations running those CMSes. Please feel free to contribute a new topic to the Wiki or improve upon a topic that has already been started.

Getting Started

How to launch your website

Resources for picking a domain name, maintaining your site, and a checklist of 15 things you should do when launching your site.

Switching from College Publisher

A guide that will eventually be a step-by-step for how to leave College Publisher and move to an open source system.

Get Developing

WordPress is a blogging platform that is gaining increasing popularity among news organizations as a content management system. The user interface is clean, simple and intuitive.

Django is an open source web application framework, written in Python, initially created for news organizations.

Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in the programming language PHP. Unlike WordPress, you have to have a great deal of knowledge about the software to use it, but you have more freedom for customization and control over your site's functionality.