Burn it Down: a Case Study in CMS Replatforming

Fairfax Media, one of Australia’s largest publishes, collaborated with Human Made to replace its proprietary CMS with WordPress. The transition to using WordPress as an enterprise-grade CMS was a bit scary but on release day it ended up being like any other day in the newsroom.

After months of working hand in hand with a client on a nose-to-tail relaunch of a newsroom’s CMS, it was a dream come true for it to be just another day.

This session will be a case study of a major media company using WordPress as an enterprise-grade CMS. We will cover how WordPress can go beyond its blogging stereotype to improve media editing, editorial workflow, and an API-first process.

What You’ll Learn

• Code used behind editorial features
• How to use WordPress as an enterprise CMS
  • Publishing and workflow
  • Media library
  • Taxonomies
• Development stack for using WordPress as an enterprise CMS