North South East West
Asides
North South East West is a “view of climate change” and a pretty compelling site to explore. What’s interesting is the entire site is done in WordPress, which seems to be gaining a lot of traction in the non-profit sector. Hat tip: Rob Bevan via email. From the developer: “We used WordPress more as a CMS than a blogging platform, and although there is some chronological content, mostly we’re using static pages, with commenting. 1.5′s theme system really allows developers to fundamentally change what a WordPress site can be, without making changes to WordPress itself… but you knew that already! Thanks for a great platform. We’re going to use it for a whole bunch of other projects from now on.”
Yeah WordPress is a great CMS. I use it straight out of the box with a few plugins (widgEditor and others) for my soccer club’s site. Took me about 1 hour to set up (including hunting for an image and editing etc.) and about 10 minutes a week to administer.
I moved over to WordPress from MovableType a few weeks ago. I’ve been looking at doing it for some time, and finally got around to it. Frankly, I wish I’d switched months ago! With only a couple of plugins, I have as much or more functionality, in general, than I did with MT — there’s only one function I’m missing, and I’m sure someone will write it sooner or later (I’d really like a plugin that would display thumbnails of the (n) most recent images in a given category).
I’ll be migrating all of my sites to WP as time permits!