It’s worth checking out Human Made’s review of their TechCrunch redesign. The new site is headless and required them to build a whole lot of new tools. The review has Github links to all the tools used during the build process. Click here to see Human Made’s white-paper.
Poynter has a detailed article on revenue for Civil Beat, which is a WordPress-based news startup in Hawaii. The site had initially launched with a paywall but found that it was not successful for them:
Here’s some encouraging WordPress-powered publishing news out of Baltimore: “A team of journalists and nonprofit practitioners … announced today the return of Baltimore Beat, a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online outlet.” The website will launch later in 2022 at https://baltimorebeat.com. Here’s some background from Baltimore Magazine, another local WordPress site: The Baltimore Beat, which…
Racket is a really interesting start-up publisher out of Minnesota. They call themselves “writer-owned, reader-funded” which sounds like a very good pathway for a lot of news start-ups. They use WordPress with Pico for payments:
Sarah Gooding from WPTavern published an awesome article on local newspapers in West Virginia. With all the talk of big money in WordPress and big tech in general, it’s great to see people like Tyler Channell focus on real problems and real solutions like this. Here’s the description of Tyler’s WordPress-powered PaywallProject:
One of the ideas behind PublishPress is that local publishers are successfully finding new business models, often powered by WordPress. Here’s some data to back that up from LION, a group that supports local publishers: annual revenue went up by 33% between 2020 and 2021. Most local publishers get by on revenue of just over…
Here’s another very useful WordPress publishing podcast: “Jeremy Green of Endo Creative and Leaky Paywall shares his thoughts on “why WordPress is a great choice for content publishers seeking to monetize with digital subscriptions, plus his favorite techniques for subscriptions.”
WPSiteSync is an interesting WordPress plugin that is now 100% free. The plugin allows you to sync WordPress content across multiple sites. Our team at PublishPress had considered building something like this for publishers, but it did seem like a difficult technical challenge.
If you’re a publisher who adds a lot of content on your WordPress site, it’s easy to end up with an uncategorized. Your writers can easily forget to add relevant Tags, Categories, and the other taxonomy terms you need The TaxoPress plugin is a WordPress plugin that we recommend because it can analyze your content…
Neighborhood Journal is a really interesting experiment in New Mexico, and it is using WordPress of course. It’s a new digital news product that focuses on neighborhood-level news in three “zones” in Albuquerque. The publication aims to foster a “community feeling within the city.” The organization’s website, NeighborhoodJournal.com, will offer free access through June 30….