Imagine managing a site with 15+ authors. Now imagine that they’re strewn all over the world, stressed out with spouses in harm’s way, kids on sugar and a military payroll to deal with.

WordPress makes authoring so easy that managing multiple authors is really no bid deal.

SpouseBUZZ.com originally started on Typepad, and while that platform has its strengths, we gained more control and ease of use by moving to WordPress.

This site does a lot of cool things.

SpouseBUZZ Author Archives

We use Wufoo forms to register folks for conferences, and the outstanding Wuphooey WordPress plugin makes using Wufoo with WordPress SO damn easy.

The content slider on the homepage is nice because it allows the editor to bring out some of the excellent content that’s been written over the past 4+ years.

The author archives are hot – not only do we feature each author and their content, but we also give them links to their sites and their twitter URLs too.

And we use RSS feeds from sister sites to promote content to the target demographic.

The theme I chose for SpouseBUZZ.com really taught me a few lessons. Always listen to your first instinct about doubts! Always check browser compatibility for a theme BEFORE you invest development time into it. I don’t want to say where I bought the theme, but I will say that it’s a very reputable source and the theme author ranks real high. I guess none of his customers care too much about compatibility with IE7 and IE8.

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