One central idea here at PublishPress is that this is an exciting new time for journalism. There is a large group of new publishers that are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and powered by WordPress. This week provided excellent evidence to back up this idea. The Institute for Nonprofit News released their nominations for the “Nonprofit News…
Having a code problem with your WordPress site? There’s a significant chance that the answer can be found in a PHP error log. Often these error logs are available via hosting company control panels, but also there are many users who can’t access them. In this guide, I’ll show you how to set up PHP…
The Local Media Association is a trade group that focuses on the business side of local media. They try to help newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations grow their bottom line. They’ve just put out a detailed report explaining what happened when several Black-owned local media outlets moved to WordPress and Newspack. This list shows…
For several years, I’ve been blogging here on PublishPress about the explosion in local news publishers. Initially that was driven by a gut-feeling that something exciting is in the early, formative stages. These publishers are mostly non-profit, mission-driven, and powered by WordPress. There’s now data to back that up: The Institute for Non-Profit News is…
Back in May, we covered the upcoming launch of Baltimore Beat as a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper. The site launched this week. You can read the launch post from Lisa Snowden, the newspaper’s editor: We wanted to tell stories that reflected the fact that Baltimore City’s residents are more than 60% Black. We wanted to…
The common practice of sharing WordPress user accounts makes it easy for agencies to provide site access for both developers and maintainers. But this practice has many downsides. As we’ll discuss below, we don’t recommend sharing WordPress user accounts in any professional setting.
elPeriódico is a daily newspaper in Guatemala that often reports on corruption in the country’s government. The paper’s motto translates to, “Informative scoops and rigorous and deep journalistic investigations always.” The paper was founded in 1996 by José Rubén Zamora. You can read about Zamora’s career on Wikipedia, but it’s safe to say that he’s…
FloridaPolitics.com broke the news this week that the FBI was searching Donald Trump’s house. Peter Schorsch is the website’s publisher and he broke the news on Twitter. This led to some positive stories about the website, but honestly it’s far from the most interesting thing about FloridaPolitics.com. The news about Trump would have broken anyway,…
If you run a WordPress agency, customizing the login experience for the sites you build is a great way to promote your agency and build brand recognition. Here are some helpful plugins to customize the WordPress login screen. These plugins will keep your agency top-of-mind with the site owner when they need changes or new…
You don’t have to work alone in producing content: the best writing is done in a team. If you’re using WordPress for a publication with multiple writers, I recommend that you try the PublishPress Authors plugin. With this plugin you can display the names of everyone involved in your posts. By default, WordPress will only…