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…
The Onion has been one of the best newspapers in the USA for many years now. It launched as a print publication in 1988 and moved online in 1996. That means they’ve had a website for nearly 30 years. And finally that website is on WordPress!
Every year, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) carries out a detailed survey of their members. There’s a lot of ways to dig into this data, but I’d like to highlight this post by Emily Roseman who concentrates on how AI is being used in these newsrooms.
One of our key goals for this year is to help you replace expensive SaaS services. Why use Trello, ClickUp, Notion, or other products when you already have WordPress? We took a big step towards that goal with the latest update of PublishPress Planner. This version of the PublishPress Planner has new features and a…
Google’s E-E-A-T stands for Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. It’s a concept used by Google’s search team to evaluate the quality and credibility of a website’s content. If you have a WordPress website, E-E-A-T is going to have some influence on where you appear in Google’s search results. In this post, I’ll explain what E-E-A-T…
WordPress allows you to build multisite networks. This is an awesome feature and enables you to manage many sites from a single WordPress installation. However, some WordPress features do work differently on a multisite network. If you normally manage a single site, you may have to adjust your thinking. One of these features is permissions….
The last year has been dominated by AI technology. Lazy publishers are racing to produce articles in minutes using AI tools. What happens if you want to go in the opposite direction? What happens if you value high-quality content and think you’ll be rewarded in the long-run? In that case, you want to showcase the…
Poynter has a very good write-up of the challenges facing three new publishers. All three of the publishers are on WordPress. That wasn’t on purpose – it’s just that almost all new publishers use WordPress. Here are three publishers featured in the Poynter story: