One of the ideas behind PublishPress is that lot of innovation is happening with publishing, and that much of it happening on WordPress. I came across this launch of a new WordPress-based business newspaper in India: https://businessguardian.in. It turns out to be part of a entire WordPress-based media ecosystem owned by the ITV network, publishing…
Normally old newspapers try to start websites. This story goes in the opposite direction. The Stroud Times is a U.K.-based WordPress site started in 2020 and is now expanding to a physical version: “Readers are fed up with doom and gloom stories, we pride ourselves in being the beacon for positive news and engaging human interest…
The PublishPress Pro plugin allows you to send notifications about content changes via Slack. Recently, Slack has made some changes to how integrations worked. So we have had to update the Slack integration in PublishPress Pro. If you are using PublishPress Pro, you don’t have to update immediately. However, at some point, the old system…
Seth Rubenstein is the lead developer at the Pew Research Center and he posted a very interesting Twitter thread on their use of WordPress and Gutenberg:
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…