If you haven't visited the Pioneer Press website in a while — perhaps out of frustration with its glitchiness, glaring incompatibility with mobile devices, and so on — you might want to take another look.
A new TwinCities.com debuts today, as Pioneer Press digital czar Jennifer Westpfahl notes.
I am excited about the new site for a geeky reason: It is based on WordPress, the same Internet-publishing platform that powers my personal blog and my Pioneer Press tech blog (where you are now) along with, it is estimated, 23.3 percent of the top 10 million websites as of January 2015.
For Pioneer Press customers, this means a site that operates more reliably than the old one, and adapts itself more elegantly to computer and mobile-devices displays of varying sizes. Yes, you can actually use the site on an iPad now; what a concept.
For Pioneer Press newsroom staffers like myself, this is exciting because we can discard our crappy old content-management system, and start using a CMS that doesn't suck for our writing, copy editing and photo/video posting.
Everything becomes easier, like hyperlinking. Can you believe our old CMS did not have native hyperlinking? I had to code in Kompozer.
The Pioneer Press is, specifically, using a flavor of WordPress called WordPress.com VIP, a souped-up variant intended to be a full publishing platform for some of the biggest names in the mainstream media.
Now we're on that list (along with, eventually, other Digital First Media papers). That is just wicked cool.
Source: Pioneer Press has a brand-new site
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