Lessons Learned from Managing Large Site Networks

How to Maintain a WordPress Site with 50m+ Monthly Uniques

During this talk, David Parsons will go over how the USA Today Sports team uses WordPress.com VIP to help scale their sites. In addition, he will go over what best practices the team uses when building things that are not necessarily on WordPress as well. This includes 3rd party API’s etc.

Infinite stories. 550+ websites. One template to help them all.

In a company of several hundred newspapers with staff sizes 1-100+, GateHouse Media needed a way for newsrooms to take control of publishing special projects. The innovation team created a WordPress template that pulls analytics and advertising information for any site and uses Page Builder widgets to make digital design easy for even the smallest newsrooms. Tyson Bird will show you what was included — and what wasn’t — and how GateHouse papers have been doing journalism with impact using WordPress.

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