Wordpress for more than blogging?

[David Boddie]

Okay, who's thinking about (or has done in the past) using WordPress for something other than blogging. I'm thinking about using it for news article gathering and publishing on our web site. Anyone else?

[Mike Henderson]

Ryan, great job on the site, I was wondering what kind of plug-ins you are using?

[Ryan Pharis]

Thanks Mike. To get the main functionality I was going for, I made a custom plugin. This adds custom fields that we can modify and use for different types of posts.
Other plugins are NextGen Gallery, Share This, wordTube (modified slightly), WordPress.com Popular Posts, and WP-Email.

[David Boddie]

Thanks, everyone for your replies. This helps me out a lot, since I like WP for its versatility, and its nice admin module. I'll be looking into using it as a news tool for a couple of my sites...

[Jon Crannage]

We currently use WP for some minisites such as those for conferences. It will be one of the platforms we consider when it comes to updating our main site. We are also publishing teaching guides using the commentpress theme http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/.

[Stephanie Leary]

Have you found that people catch on to what commentpress is doing? I showed it off in my office and found that people were very confused until we walked through it a little.

[Jon Crannage]

Colleagues *seemed* to grasp what was going on - I gave them this example http://interactive.dius.gov.uk/innovationnation/ - it will be interesting to see if our community likes the format and uses it.

[Stephanie Leary]

My presentation for HighEdWeb includes a download for a complete departmental site using the Mimbo theme. It's very much just a demo :) but it includes news, job listings (sort of), a staff directory (sort of), and an email newsletter via Feedburner.

[Jay Collier]

One year later ...

Just came across this ... the presentation link is broken, but the ZIP works ... looking through the plugins.

I think I'm going to make a list of common plugins with comments and links ...

[Jay Collier]

http://bit.ly/euXTf

[Mike James]

David,
I've created our online alumni magazine and our internal news site with wordpress.
http://www.sandiego.edu/usdmag/

http://www.sandiego.edu/insideusd/

Mike

[Rick Sweeney]

A few questions on using WP and Feedburner for college newsletters:

Are you just using the feedburner email delivery system to notify users of additional content added to an online newsletter? We currently use the standard send an html email out whenever a new newsletter is produced. Do you find using feedburner a more effective delivery system?

Why I ask, is that we are currently looking to re-vamp our newsletter and I am looking at new and fresh alternatives.

Rick

[Stephanie Leary]

BuddyPress is now in beta. I've been watching its development for a while and it looks fascinating. It's a set of plugins and templates for WordPressMU that turns the blogging platform into a social network.

Has anyone tried it yet? I installed an earlier copy but got sidetracked before I'd done much with it.