We are pleased to announce that WordPress Lite is now available for eligible use-cases, under moderation by each department's Web Representative. WordPress Lite is a CERN made and lightweight version of WordPress, offering an initial set of plugins and the first version of our official CERN WordPress theme running on the existing app-catalogue infrastructure.

This offering aims at providing a simple and accessible way for website owners in need of WordPress to familiarise themselves with WordPress until the central infrastructure is available.

It is a limited, temporary solution, only available for those with urgent needs.

All WordPress websites will need to be migrated to the central WordPress version once available. The migration is expected to be automated - but we cannot offer guarantees at this stage. Once applicable, individual website owners will be contacted with more information.

Please check the dedicated section to the roadmap to see the updates to the plans and timelines.

We will go over these details in the Community Meeting of 26th September via Zoom.

We write this news to share that the presentation at the Enlarged Directorate, on March 5th 2024, on the topic of “Web presence, Governance and Drupal to WordPress migration” was very well-received. A decision to move have WordPress as the new CMS centrally provided at CERN has been approved. This decision implies as well a move from Drupal to WordPress, followed by a Drupal decommission at CERN. Given the additional resources needed for this project, in order to develop the infrastructure in house and support the migration for Drupal and WordPress websites, new resources will be requested (Q3/Q4 onwards). However, work is already starting on the preparations of the new infrastructure.