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Postmedia WordPress VIP Migration: Eleven Papers, One Parent Theme
In 2011–2012, when Postmedia moved its network of major Canadian daily newspapers onto WordPress, I was part of the team that built the platform — starting with the National Post as the flagship, then cascading to papers including the Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, and seven more. This is the architecture behind that rollout, and what it meant to prove WordPress could carry a national daily at a moment when that was still contested.
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