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The White House started posting on Reddit to talk about Hurricane Milton
Main Post: The White House started posting on Reddit to talk about Hurricane Milton
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Think they’re trying to find a replacement for twitter
White House Internship Program - 2025
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White House internship Program for Spring 2025
Thread for Applicants in the White House and EOC internships! Created to share/compare stats, resume, and keep each other updated throughout the process. Deadline: July 26
Website to Apply: https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/internships/
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I was an intern there when the Lewinsky scandal broke. Interesting times.
A cool guide to the White House's floor plan
Main Post: A cool guide to the White House's floor plan
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That's not the Oval Office dining room - that is Leo's office! :-)
It looks like whitehouse.gov uses wordpress. Is this true and if so, what did they do to make it so fast and responsive?
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Just what the title says. I want to set up a relatively low volume (hundreds of hits per day) woocommerce site and want it to be as fast as possible. If whitehouse.gov is really built with wordpress there must be lessons to be learned on how they made WP so fast and responsive.
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I was a part of the team that built the site, happy to answer any questions I can.
Addressing a couple of things I’ve seen so far:
- While 10up did work on the site, it was actually a collaborative effort between 10up, Wide Eye Creative, and volunteers on the Biden/Harris transition (I was in this group). Wide Eye was the designer and did the overwhelming majority of the public site development, 10up was mostly focused on editorial experience and wp-admin development and the volunteers filled in to multiple spots. After the build and launch, it was handed over to another team to manage the ongoing work.
- There are off the shelf plugins that were used. It isn’t 100% bespoke.
- It didn’t launch on WPVIP.
- It’s not based on the 2022 theme since this site launched at noon on January 20, 2021 ( see 20th amendment to US constitution)