Le Monde moves to WordPress
Le Monde just relaunched their blogging services. Their several thousand blogs are now powered by WordPress (they used to be on TypePad). Lots of new WordPress blogs get created every day, but this installation is significant for a number of reasons. First off, Le Monde is the best known newspaper in France, they are highly respected and we are very happy to have them on our platform. They are also the first major WordPress MU (Multi-User) deployment since MU was officially released last week. In addition to MU, Le Monde is also using our Akismet service to keep spam off their blogs and they are the first licensee of the stats package we developed for WordPress.com.
Le Monde joins an impressive list of media publishers who have chosen WordPress as their blog publishing platform of choice, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and many others.
PS: each Le Monde blog will have a powered by WordPress link that points to fr.wordpress.com, our emerging wordpress.com community for French bloggers.
Fantastic! Awesome work by both the Automattic and Le Monde team members involved. “I love it when a plan comes together”
Merveilleux!
C’est bien, ca!
When I went to the American College (now University) in Paris in 1975, I discovered the French love of good conversation and useful technology. Their choice of WordPress is a natural.
They will benefit each other to the greater good of both…the baseline of all good blogs.
Terrific!!
Genial!
This will give a bust to WordPress! Maybe Typepad will realise that their payed features are free with WordPress! Real bloggers use WordPress
“fr.wordpress.com, our emerging wordpress.com community for French bloggers”.
I’m an active member of the french WP community, located at http://www.wordpress-fr.net . Could you tell me/us what the plans are for the fr subdomain ? Maybe we can work together ?
Woohoo great news, congrats to the WordPress team!
Take that, Loic Le Meur, in your face!
Awesome!
Real bloggers use WordPress
Happy Halloween
Ouch ! An ultra conservative staunch old world newpaper joining the Open Source party. There must be some mistake
Congrats, WordPress: this is a very good move towards quality blogging. And you convinced me in the same time (not a Le Monde user, but a WordPad-soon-to-be).
Paul Elosegui,
While Germany is wiki-maniac, France has been very much at the front-head of the blog revolution, thanks to Skyblogs (think MySpace, but in French) and that platform: however (left-wing) conservative, Le Monde and Libé(ration) have been through vey harsh time, and they tried many things to go through. In both cases, blogs were their best move so far.
I don’t thing being conservative is against blogging anyway: if you speak French, you can check out hautetfort.com, very much a right-wing platform: two most frequent tags? Sarkozy, the right-wing “libéral” (read: Thatcher), and Philippe de Villiers, a far-right, conservative, Christian leader.
Good move indeed. Their previous platform was with way too susceptible to spam comments. I checked a couple of blogs tied to Le Monde and the link pointed to http://wordpres.org/ however.
Xavier – did you get my email?
It was about time that everybody saw the tech miracle that is wordpress
This is really great news! It will definitely help when I try to convince clients and media that WPMU is a great choice for a blogging platform.
Pourqoi “le Monde” ne connecte pas avec les blogs qui sont déjàé sous Worpress ?
De quoi j’me mêle….
Amicalement
L’Abrincate
Hi,
Since several days all “Le Monde” blogs are not accessible.
Is there any problem? It’s curious no one reported anything.
Thanks for your input if you have any
Au point, comme ici, de prendre la place à TypePad
Excuse me, I dont understand!
Pourqoi “le Monde” ne connecte pas avec les blogs qui sont déjàé sous Worpress ?
In addition to the widespread use and acceptance of WordPress, maybe it also had a lot to do with the availability of over 100 already developed and tested Plug-In tools for WordPress.
WordPress is the best