For several years, I’ve been blogging here on PublishPress about the explosion in local news publishers. Initially that was driven by a gut-feeling that something exciting is in the early, formative stages. These publishers are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and powered by WordPress. There’s now data to back that up: The Institute for Non-Profit News is…
Back in May, we covered the upcoming launch of Baltimore Beat as a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper. The site launched this week. You can read the launch post from Lisa Snowden, the newspaper’s editor: We wanted to tell stories that reflected the fact that Baltimore City’s residents are more than 60% Black. We wanted to…
The common practice of sharing WordPress user accounts makes it easy for agencies to provide site access for both developers and maintainers. But this practice has many downsides. As we’ll discuss below, we don’t recommend sharing WordPress user accounts in any professional setting.
elPeriódico is a daily newspaper in Guatemala that often reports on corruption in the country’s government. The paper’s motto translates to, “Informative scoops and rigorous and deep journalistic investigations always.” The paper was founded in 1996 by José Rubén Zamora. You can read about Zamora’s career on Wikipedia, but it’s safe to say that he’s…
FloridaPolitics.com broke the news this week that the FBI was searching Donald Trump’s house. Peter Schorsch is the website’s publisher and he broke the news on Twitter. This led to some positive stories about the website, but honestly it’s far from the most interesting thing about FloridaPolitics.com. The news about Trump would have broken anyway,…
If you run a WordPress agency, customizing the login experience for the sites you build is a great way to promote your agency and build brand recognition. Here are some helpful plugins to customize the WordPress login screen. These plugins will keep your agency top-of-mind with the site owner when they need changes or new…
Several PublishPress customers have asked us if it’s possible to customize the WooCommerce Order screens. You can can see an example of an Order in the screenshot below. Yes, this is possible with the PublishPress Capabilities Pro plugin, and in this guide I’ll show you how it’s done, using the Editor Features option.
Earlier this year, I wrote about Mississippi Today which is a success story for non-profit newsrooms. This week, they’ve launched a new sister organization in New Orleans called Verite. Both Verite and Mississippi Today are going to be part of a network of mission-driven, local news organizations called “Deep South Today”. I’ve been blogging about…
For five years now, the Institute for Nonprofit News has produce an annual report on the nonprofit news sector. Their 2022 report shows that independent local news is growing strongly. Here are 3 key points from the report: Since 2017, more than 135 nonprofit news outlets have launched. The number of newsrooms in the INN Network…
One of the most common requests we’ve had from users of the PublishPress Authors plugin is the ability to show all your authors on one page. This is now possible with big improvements to the shortcode. This update arrives in PublishPress Authors version 3.20. The shortcode now comes with a variety of different views. In…