Comments on: The Ghosts of WordPress Past http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:10:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Young http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/#comment-914351 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:40:40 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3546#comment-914351 Our community site was a outgrowth of how effective our efforts were in school funding, New Hampshire Communities for Adequate Funding of Education (NHcafe). http://www.NHcafe.com (or org)

The website was a hybrid, since WordPress was simple in those days. The “Blog” was contributed to every day for the years that the state fought us. Every item relating to school funding was published. Good for us or bad for us, it was the collaboration and the data base that gave us the power to win.

I am on the school board, in the right place and the right time. With thousands around the world contributing time and talent to WordPress so people like us can make a difference.

We set up a “vote” WordPress blog for my partner who is now on the Town Council, that “one story a day” became Londonderry Hometown Online News with 2000 articles, 3000 photos and even more comments, in under two years, but that is a story for another day.

]]> By: WordPress News: Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More | The Blog Herald http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/#comment-914328 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:03:06 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3546#comment-914328 [...] defense of their case on school funding before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire and the Senate. According to Steve Young of Londonderry NY.net, when asked about sharing some WordPress history, he said: For us it was the [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/#comment-914316 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:28:38 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3546#comment-914316 @Steve Young: Wait a minute. WordPress went “with you” to the Supreme Court. Wow! That is so cool. I love it! Thanks!

]]> By: Steve Young http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/#comment-914307 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:13:07 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3546#comment-914307 “Do you have some history with WordPress worth sharing?”

For us it was the fact that it could make history in the way we used it. April 30th 2005 was our first use of WordPress and post. Using it to Blog about school funding in New Hampshire, we published anything and everything on school funding.

We ended up in Supreme Court and won. Our attorney told us, in part because they were able to use the data to hold the politicians accountable for the things they had said.

]]> By: Franklin Bishop http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/#comment-914199 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:03:28 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3546#comment-914199 I will definitely go through the journey of the past five years. Thanks for letting me know about it.

]]> By: Wesley http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/the-ghosts-of-wordpress-past/#comment-914190 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:53:06 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3546#comment-914190 I love Ozh’s post. I haven’t been using wordpress for very long and it’s always nice to see how something has evolved over time.

Another thing you may find useful is this: Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers. Shows the top 1000 plugin developers and number of downloads for their plugins. Pretty cool to see who’s on top :)

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