One of the reasons I started PublishPress is I believe there’s an emerging ecosystem of exciting publishing start-ups. Many of these publishers started around 2020, are non-profit or owned by the journalists, and almost all use WordPress. A new ecosystem must have supporting organizations, and for these emerging publishers, few are more supportive than INN…
Over the last several years, the WordPress community has focused on the “Gutenberg” project. The aim is to modernize how WordPress works. Phase 1 introduced a new block editor for writing posts. Phase 2 allowed you to use those blocks for building a website. And Phase 3 is about to begin! I think Phase 3…
“Additional CSS” is a feature from WordPress core that was first introduced on WordPress 4.7. This feature was initially created to make it easier for users to customize their site’s CSS without the need for additional plugins or directly editing their theme. You can normally find this feature by navigating to Appearance -> Customize ->…
PublishPress Revisions has a new feature called “Revision Archive”. This is one place to find all the revisions for content on your site. Normally it’s really difficult to view revisions in WordPress. The only way to access them is via a small link inside each individual post. “Revision Archive” solves this problem by displaying all…
MediaNews Group is a major publishing group across the United States. They own over 100 newspapers and 200 other publications. Their newspapers reach from California (Orange Country Register and Marin Independent Journal) to Florida (Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel). They’re also all across the Midwest (Twin Cities Pioneer Press and Morning Sun) and the North…
The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site. I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I’ll explain how this capability works. You may also find it…
I’ve talked often about the work of INN (Institute for Nonprofit News) regularly here on PublishhPress. INN is a fascinating organization because they’re building a community of innovative publishers including many start-ups. And those publishers almost all use WordPress. In fact, INN has long encouraged their members to move to WordPress, even running their own…
A few weeks ago, I spoke on the Scale podcast with Stewart Ritchie. One of things we discussed was that WordPress-based companies are building an infrastructure to help publishers to succeed. Even three or four years ago, that infrastructure did not exist. In 2019, it was just more difficult to launch a news start-up.
By default, WordPress provides pages that display the posts written by each author. These author pages will normally be located at a URL like this /author/username/. For example, you can find all my PublishPress posts by clicking on this link. That URL is a good example of how these pages work. However, these author pages…
Last year, we covered Block Club Chicago, which is a WordPress-based news start-up. They’ve now reached their 5th birthday and have one of the most inspiring stories in new U.S. journalism. I dug into the Block Club Chicago story this week and realized I had missed a related development. Block Club’s success is backed by…