The UK Parliament Labs are developing the services they offer through customising their use of WordPress blogging software. This will make their news services more accessible – and more friendly – to use!
“WordPress is open source software that is free to use and customise. This is the first time Parliament has used the open source option. The main reasons for doing so are the ability to customise the look and functionality of WordPress easily, it’s economical, and inputting and publishing content is simple and fast. And it lets us provide RSS feeds. And unique, fairly friendly, URLs. Basically everything you’d expect from a website today.”
Parliament is not the first influential institution to use WordPress in the UK, indeed the Number 10 website uses it as well, but it will undoubtedly do a lot to promote WordPress and Free and Open Source Software across the UK – and the World!
Filed under: FOSS, International News, National Community News, New Media | Tagged: FOSS, Free stuff, UK Parliament, WordPress
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