# WordPress as a Collaboration Platform

**TL;DR:** A presentation on how teams use WordPress beyond publishing, from collaborative document editing to progress tracking and workflow integration.

Published 2012-05-08 · [View on Ben Balter's site](https://ben.balter.com/2012/05/08/wordpress-as-a-collaboration-platform/)

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Today countless teams are using WordPress to drive collaboration and facilitate inter-team communication. This presentation, given at the May WordPress DC Meetup, showcases some of the creative ways companies and organizations are using WordPress as the central hub of their day-to-day workflow: To organize and collaboratively edit documents and other non-web content, track and communicate their team's progress with one another, and extend WordPress to work with their existing tools and practices

[Slides](https://ben.balter.com/wordpress-as-a-collaboration-platform/)

## Plugins Mentioned

- [WP Document Revisions](https://ben.balter.com/2011/08/29/wp-document-revisions-document-management-version-control-wordpress/)
- [Edit Flow](https://editflow.org)
- [Members](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/)
- [Advanced Custom Fields](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/)
- [Display Custom Fields](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-display-custom-fields/)
- [Count Shortcode](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/count-shortcode/)
- [Faceted Search Widget](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/faceted-search-widget/)
- [Custom Taxonomy Generator](https://generatewp.com/taxonomy/)