One of our clients asked for a standard Press Release section for their Magento site. With the majority of their website built on the Magento platform, it made more sense to build an extension to handle the press releases, rather than add a whole separate CMS. The rationale was that having a single CMS to log into will increase productivity and eliminate confusion. Since Magento has a decent CMS and user role/permission interface, it just made sense to enhance the CMS functionality.

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