I’ve written often that many areas of online publishing are absolutely dominated by WordPress. I was delighted to see that was reflected on the stages of WordCamp US in Portland. We got talks from the New York Post, CNN, iOne Digital, Vox Media, Pew Research, Grist, Harvard, Wikimedia, Time, Disney, and RecipeTin. That’s a lot…
In September last year, I wrote about the launch of Press Forward and how they had promised to invest $500 million in local news organizations over the next five years. It has been a year now, and that money is starting to flow to WordPress publishers.
I’m super excited to share PublishPress Future 4.0 with you. The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts. Version 4.0 enables you to schedule changes using advanced, drag-and-drop workflows. Here are some examples of what’s possible:
PublishPress Checklists is the best plugin to make sure your content is ready to go live. With PublishPress Checklists, you can choose pre-publishing requirements for your content. Here are some example requirements: The newest version of PublishPress Checklists adds improved support for WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, and the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin.
Chris Hardie is a software engineer with a deep interest in journalism. Chris worked for Automattic for five years and recently completed a master’s degree in journalism. Back in 2022, he took over running Western Wayne News in Wayne County, Indiana.
If you run a newspaper or magazine site, there may be a lot of activity with authors, editors, and also ordinary users. You may even have multiple sites to run. It’s important for publishers to have an accurate way to track who is making changes on their sites. And it’s vital to know what has…
It’s now possible to combine the PublishPress Revisions and PublishPress Planner plugins. In the Revisions plugin, you can schedule revisions to be automatically published in the future. This allows you to update content now, but publish those changes at a later date. In the Planner plugin, you can use the Content Calendar screen to see…
This is a really interesting article on the free press in Venezuela: “Collaboration helps keep independent journalism alive in Venezuela“. Almost all the independent news outlets trying to report on the government use WordPress including El Pitazo, Efecto Cocuyo, Runrun.es, Cazadores de Fake News, and TalCual. These websites covered the recent Venezuelan elections despite a fierce…
Back in 2019, Automattic acquired Tumblr for $3 million. That was a huge discount on the $1 billion that Yahoo paid only six years before. However, the last few years have not been smooth for Automattic. Last November, it emerged that Automattic was reducing it’s efforts to overhaul Tumblr:
WPBizDev is a membership site aimed at WordPress business owners. They’ve just published a very solid article by Lawrence Ladomery called “Local news publishing – an opportunity for WordPress product businesses?“ Lawrence highlights something we often talk about: almost the entire local news ecosystem runs on WordPress. He pulls data from The State of Local…