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….
The Washington City Paper newspaper is ending its print edition after 41 years. The paper lives on via a member-supported WordPress site now. The City Paper team published a long and beautifully-written article about the transition from print to digital: From a technical standpoint, my generation of City People has a significantly easier time producing…
This article from Nieman Lab is a good summary of why local publishers matter (and WordPress is their main tool). The article is a summary of a research paper. To sum it up in a sentence: When papers are sold to corporate owners, the number of local articles can fall by 68%. 1. Acquisition leads…
PublishPress Blocks is one of the most popular plugins for Gutenberg blocks with over 30,000 users. In the latest release of PublishPress Blocks Pro, you’ll find some really cool new design options, including these: Google Fonts: You can choose from over 1,000 fonts to use in your blocks. Content Display block: This block is the…