Monthly Archives: June 2011

New Plugin: Define SSL Pages

Posted on June 30, 2011 by William P. Davis

Just released: A very simple plugin that allows you to require SSL for certain pages on your site. For example, at the BDN we moved the login form from /wp-login.php to /login/, and wanted to require SSL for that page. … Continue reading →

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Form ever follows function, eventually

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Todd Benoit

Our online editor, Will Davis, has been explaining how we flowed text from Google Docs to WordPress to print and created a low-cost, portable front-end system for our newsroom at Bangor Daily News. I wanted to tell you a little … Continue reading →

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Quick update to the Docs to WordPress plugin

Posted on June 20, 2011 by William P. Davis

We’ve released a quick update to the Docs to WordPress plugin that allows the plugin to integrate with WP Cron rather than requiring you to create your own file to run cron against (though you can still do that, too). … Continue reading →

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Marrying Google Docs and WordPress (or really any CMS)

Posted on June 16, 2011 by William P. Davis

At the BDN, we love WordPress, but we didn’t feel it was the right place to have our reporters working. Even with distraction-free writing, there’s too much cruft that would confuse reporters or that we don’t want reporters touching. We … Continue reading →

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Importing archives into WordPress

Posted on June 15, 2011 by William P. Davis

I’m starting with the import process not because it is an exceptionally good place to start when preparing to move a site to WordPress but because it’s one of the few things I got right from the get-go when I … Continue reading →

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A quick overview of our editorial workflow

Posted on June 14, 2011 by William P. Davis

Lauren Rabaino asked on a previous post for a video of our entire workflow. The whole process is actually pretty simple, so it wasn’t hard to record it. Everything starts in Google Docs — that’s where the reporters write their … Continue reading →

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Credits

Posted on June 14, 2011 by William P. Davis

I wanted to credit a few people who were immensely helpful in getting the site up and running. I’m William P. Davis, online editor at the Bangor Daily News. Todd Benoit is Director of News and New Media, and Martha … Continue reading →

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Bangor Daily News completes final switch to WordPress

Posted on June 13, 2011 by William P. Davis

Wednesday, we pointed the last of our traffic to our WordPress servers. We started planning the transition soon after I started at the BDN in July, and started beta testing the system in late August with our Sports section. Stories … Continue reading →

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