MyVU and Vanderbilt View now powered by WordPress
Earlier last month myVU, the news source for Vanderbilt faculty and staff, and Vanderbilt View, the monthly magazine, merged with the Vanderbilt News web presence. This allows us to greatly simplify how we communicate news at Vanderbilt. Prior to the merge, many news stories would be posted twice, verbatim. Once on the Vanderbilt news website and once on the myVU site. Not great for search engine optimization (duplicate content reduces your page rank), not great for time and resource efficiency either.
Now that myVU is powered by the same backend WordPress installation that runs Vanderbilt News and Research News @ Vanderbilt, stories can be posted once and appear across all of the news sites. Both sites also incorporate a slideshow (the popular Nivo slider) that can feature content from across all of the news presences.
Based on what type of story it is, different headers, footers and sidebars are presented. What we’re calling a “hierarchy of branding” takes place for each individual story:
- If a story is RESEARCH, it will always have the research layout, no matter what other news sources it also is associated with (i.e. a myVU story that is also a research story will look like a research story.)
- If a story is ONLY for myVU, it will have the myVU layout.
- Otherwise, the story will have the default Vanderbilt News layout.
- If a story is from the Vanderbilt View, the myVU layout is used and the Vanderbilt View logo appears in the right column.
All the cool features we’ve built into the backend for the main news presence and research are now available for myVU and Vanderbilt View too. We’re also now supporting just one content management system — and one set of templates — instead of three, which reduces the amount of time we spend posting stories, addressing technical glitches, etc.
May 19th, 2011
Nice
September 18th, 2011
Yeah defo, wordpress is by far the best.
May 23rd, 2011
Excellent new site! Love the fact that you went with open source CMS…
May 29th, 2011
WordPress is hugely powerful, good move!
May 30th, 2011
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June 1st, 2011
WordPress is the way to go! Excellent transition.
June 12th, 2011
Very cool! WordPress Rocks. I use it as well and could not be happier with it.
June 23rd, 2011
WordPress is definitely right choice as a blogging platforms.Whether it is for personnel use or for community purpose just like your educational platforms ,its works perfect. Being fellow wordpress blogger i wish you for joiningu00a0 the open source blogging community. And your blog theme is nice,especially the right sidebar design, i love that one.
June 27th, 2011
Hands down, the best blogging platform out there. There are still a few security bugs, but they are working them out. It’s so much better for a solid content management system, and everything to do with blogging is built around WP now. My blog is powered by WP with Thesis, and I love it.
July 2nd, 2011
You’re going to love Word Press, its so diversified!
July 11th, 2011
Goodn updates ! The wordpress installation will increase the likeliness of then website. And the slider presentation will also make reading news easier alln at one place. But the duplicate content must be taken care of, because thatn will affect the rankling of the page in search engine results.
July 18th, 2011
wordpress is best cms with seo. So I too like
July 20th, 2011
Good, WordPress is probably the best piece of software on the market. Installing WP will increase the number of visitors and make the interface more user friendly.
July 22nd, 2011
Word Press is the best ;)
August 13th, 2011
You’re going to love Word Press, its so diversified!
August 13th, 2011
So clean, professional and nice. Will you have any editing issues?
August 25th, 2011
nice templates. I use it as well and could not be happier with it
September 11th, 2011
Good article
September 11th, 2011
Good article, wordpress is the best! :)
September 15th, 2011
Good move, wordpress is best blogging platform
September 21st, 2011
Nice, wordpress is a way better platform.
February 12th, 2012
Yeah wordpress is definitely the best for sure.
February 12th, 2012
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February 16th, 2012
WordPress is the way to go
February 20th, 2012
Tremendous tips and tricks for wordpress and layouts and templates. Its really nice for a professional blogger
February 29th, 2012
WordPress is definitely the way to go. u00a0It’s got the clean look of a new website and is easy for SEO
March 7th, 2012
good,great.
March 11th, 2012
WordPress is easily the most powerful platform out there. It is so easy to use and looks great! Good move!
April 15th, 2012
Love WordPress. Absolutely the most powerful way out there.
May 25th, 2012
WordPress is awesome! You will not be disappointed with doing this!
September 20th, 2012
So good