Europeans for Peace is a programme of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” that promotes partnerships between schools or youth facilities from Germany and Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe or Israel.

Their website is done with a commercial CMS that is actually not half bad, but was developed when PHP 4 was state of the art, and is now slowly falling to pieces. Ever since I took over programming work ( I’m a subcontractor here – graphics design and project management is done by kakoii.de ) new functions are build with open source software.

Europeans for peace currently supports about 220 projects. To improve outward communication for the projects we build a blogging plattform on top of the multiuser version of wordpress that was now tenetively to the public (currently there are only 4 blogs, in the course of time every projects will get it’s only blog).

We recreated the old project archive as a WP plugin – if you do a project search you can switch from the projects detail page to the blog (example , use the tabs above the main content area) – and build a few custom plugins for the start page.

That was a fun project, and I’m waiting to see how Wordpress mu will perform when this is actually used by many bloggers and visitors.