{"id":65,"date":"2011-05-20T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wordpress\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2012-05-03T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:30:46","slug":"aboutthissite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/aboutthissite\/","title":{"rendered":"About this site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2011 I began a WordPress version of the News Division Web site.\u00a0 WordPress would provide a fresh look. My vision was to make links to the existing content and add new material in WordPress.\u00a0 With a WordPress blog, a contributor would not need to know HTML and could easily add\u00a0content to the Web site, if only a short note.\u00a0 And rather than taking responsibility for a page,\u00a0someone could make a blog post.\u00a0\u00a0Content from some blog posts could later be used by the\u00a0Web administrator(s)\u00a0to update a Web page.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2011 SLA required all units, chapters, etc. to host their Web sites in WordPress\u00a0on the SLA server.\u00a0\u00a0 With about 17 years of content sitting on our original host, rather than do all the work of moving it and converting it to WordPress, a decision was made to devote this Web site to the history of news libraries and librarians.\u00a0\u00a0Thus &#8220;old news&#8221; was born.\u00a0This would give a new Web master on the SLA host\u00a0an opportunity for a fresh start going forward.\u00a0 The logo on the old Web site was at least 12 years old and the frames design was created around 2000.\u00a0 So it was time for a fresh look.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in contributing to the site, drop me a note.\u00a0 Are you a retiree\/former news librarian?\u00a0 Send me an update on what you are doing now.\u00a0 Your news librarian\/researcher colleagues would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>Find me (Carolyn Edds) at <a href=\"mailto:ufriverat@gmail.com\">ufriverat@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2011 I began a WordPress version of the News Division Web site.\u00a0 WordPress would provide a fresh look. My vision was to make links to the existing content and add new material in WordPress.\u00a0 With a WordPress blog, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/aboutthissite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}