Wordpress

cms

open source

api

php

Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform for science blogs, and websites in general, powering about 40% of all websites. Wordpress is written in PHP.

Installation

Wordpress can be self-installed, or used as a hosted version. Many organizations offer hosted Wordpress installations, including Automattic, which runs the Wordpress.com service. Wordpress installation includes an API, RSS and Atom feeds.

Recommended plugins

The Co-Authors Plus plugin enables multiple authors per blog post, including guest authors.

The Yoast SEO plugin adds a canonical url field to each post and can be used to store the DOI of each post as metadata.

Configuration

Make sure to use the full name in the Display name publicly as user settings. You can optionally add the ORCID ID in the Website field.

Examples

The following science blogs use Wordpress as a platform:

GigaBlog - Data driven blogging from the GigaScience editors.
Henry Rzepa’s Blog - Chemistry with a twist.