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.
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Wordpress wins big Le Monde.fr account « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger // October 30, 2006 at 5:07 pm
[...] WordPress (I was here to meet someone else and dropped in to say hi). He says that Le Monde (France’s big newspaper) just moved 5,000 blogs over to WordPress. More details on Toni’s blog. Filed under: blogging @ 5:07 pm # [...]
Photo Matt » Le Monde // October 30, 2006 at 5:20 pm
[...] The French newspaper Le Monde has moved all their blogs from Typepad to WordPress, if only I could read French. They’re using WordPress MU. « BloggingPro Interview [...]
foolswisdom // October 30, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Fantastic! Awesome work by both the Automattic and Le Monde team members involved. “I love it when a plan comes together”
Narendra // October 30, 2006 at 6:24 pm
Merveilleux!
GigaOM » Le Monde Switches To WordPress // October 30, 2006 at 7:50 pm
[...] French newspaper giant Le Monde has relaunched their blogging services based on WordPress. It must be the themes, that did the trick [...]
Bruce Curley // October 30, 2006 at 7:55 pm
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.
disembedded // October 30, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Terrific!!
papavb // October 30, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Genial!
the record keeper // October 30, 2006 at 11:34 pm
This will give a bust to WordPress! Maybe Typepad will realise that their payed features are free with WordPress! Real bloggers use WordPress
Le Monde Blogs move to WordPress « The Record Keepers // October 31, 2006 at 12:09 am
[...] This is great news for all Le Monde “bloggers” around the World. From now on they start using the WordPress platform, which is JUST THE BEST blog platform in the World! WELCOME to all of you! [...]
Xavier // October 31, 2006 at 2:57 am
“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 ?
LeMonde og Wordpress at Webmercial.dk // October 31, 2006 at 4:34 am
[...] Den franske avis Le Monde flytter 5000 weblogs over på wordpress. [...]
Pierre // October 31, 2006 at 5:18 am
Woohoo great news, congrats to the WordPress team!
Take that, Loic Le Meur, in your face!
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gidibao // October 31, 2006 at 8:20 am
Awesome!
Real bloggers use WordPress
Happy Halloween
Denken Ãœber » Le Monde cambia a Wordpress // October 31, 2006 at 8:45 am
[...] Parece que el lanzamiento de la versión 1.0 de WordPress MU empieza a dar sus frutos y Le Monde acaba de salir de Typepad para mover sus casi 5000 blogs a este CMS. [...]
Paul Elosegui // October 31, 2006 at 10:47 am
Ouch ! An ultra conservative staunch old world newpaper joining the Open Source party. There must be some mistake
Writing Home » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-31 // October 31, 2006 at 3:17 pm
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Bertil // October 31, 2006 at 4:31 pm
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.
Medienpraxis.ch » Le Monde wechselt zu Wordpress // November 1, 2006 at 2:10 am
[...] Wenn Printmedien Weblogs nutzen, verwenden sie oft WordPress, das zudem vor wenigen Tagen in einer finalen Multiuser-Version erschienen ist. Nun hat auch das renommierte französische Blatt Le Monde von Typepad zu WordPress gewechselt. Dies ist dem Weblog Tonis Garage zu entnehmen. Mittwoch, 01.11.2006 | Märkte, Tools | ster | Druckversion | [...]
Brookooly » Le Monde passe à Wordpress // November 1, 2006 at 3:51 am
[...] Les blogs du quotidien viennent de passer sous WordPress, en lieu et place de Typepad. Une jolie victoire pour l’Open Source - et ça ne tue pas le business, puisque l’opération a été montée par Automattic, une vraie société qui fait du vrai argent avec WordPress. [...]
Yves // November 1, 2006 at 7:49 am
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.
Zanblog.it di Giorgio Zanetti » Le Monde passa a WordPress // November 1, 2006 at 7:50 am
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ALD · Otro golpe más para SixApart // November 1, 2006 at 2:09 pm
[...] Y hoy, como para echar mas leña al fuero, el diario franés Le Monde decidió migrar todos sus blogs de TypePad, más de 5000 de ellos, para WordPress MU, un muy mal dÃa para llamarse SixApart e increiblemente bueno llamarse Automattic. [...]
“Le monde” on Wordpress « The challenge of getting challenges // November 1, 2006 at 4:11 pm
[...] http://scobleizer.com/2006/10/30/wordpress-wins-big-le-mondefr-account/ http://toni.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/le-monde-moves-to-wordpress/ [...]
Toni // November 2, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Xavier - did you get my email?
Adina // November 3, 2006 at 8:26 am
It was about time that everybody saw the tech miracle that is wordpress
egoblog.net » Le Monde met ses blogs au libre. Interview. // November 11, 2006 at 2:02 am
[...] Quand l’un des plus grands journaux français décide de quitter une entreprise commerciale (TypePad -1) pour collaborer avec un projet open-source, on se dit : tiens, il se passe quelque chose d’intéressant. Surtout lorsque le dit journal rejoint le New York Times, le Wall Street Journal ou Reuters (toujours en avance sur son temps
dans cette belle aventure du logiciel libre. Et sur qui est donc tombé le dévolu du journal Le Monde ? WordPress ! (si je pouvais le chanter) Autant dire que ma partialité est toute relative, j’adore WordPress, pas un de mes blogs qui ne soient propulsés sans lui. Avec Firefox (fondation Mozilla), et d’autres, les logiciels libres, créés par une communauté d’utilisateurs, offrent une alternative de plus en plus crédible. Au point, comme ici, de prendre la place à TypePad (dont Loïc Le Meur est familier), l’une des plus grandes plateformes européennes pour les blogs (tout de même). [...]
Steph // November 19, 2006 at 7:02 am
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.
Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) // November 19, 2006 at 7:29 am
Blogs du Monde sous WordPress multi-utilisateurs
J’ai un train de retard (20 jours) et j’ai un peu honte, mais la nouvelle est assez importante à mes yeux pour que je la relaye tout de même: les blogs du Monde passent sous WordPress.
Après une étude comparative du marché des plate-f…
Bernard Boeton // November 21, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Pourqoi “le Monde” ne connecte pas avec les blogs qui sont déjà é sous Worpress ?
De quoi j’me mêle….
Amicalement
L’Abrincate
Francisco Malpica // April 1, 2007 at 1:36 pm
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
Emre // May 31, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Au point, comme ici, de prendre la place à TypePad
burç // May 31, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Excuse me, I dont understand!
mermer // June 4, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Pourqoi “le Monde†ne connecte pas avec les blogs qui sont déjà é sous Worpress ?
Kerry // June 20, 2007 at 3:04 am
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.
Mason // August 18, 2007 at 7:57 am
WordPress is the best