WordPress-powered publisher Rappler is in the headlines itself this week as it fights to stay online. The Philippine government has ordered the site to shut down. Rappler is a Philippine news website founded by Filipino journalists including Maria Ressa who won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. Rappler comes from the root words “rap” (to discuss)…
The Patagonia Regional Times is a non-profit publisher that focuses on the Arizona communities of Canelo, Elgin, Patagonia and Sonoita in Santa Cruz County. They have been publishing printed and digital newsletters on a monthly schedule since 2009. Their motto is “If we don’t tell these local stories, who will?” and have just launched a…
PublishPress Authors 3.19 is available today. This release has a powerful new Author Pages feature, so you can showcase the work of each individual author. In this guide, I’ll explain why we built this feature, and then I’ll explore how you can use it.
Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress, likes to pick a good honorable fight against closed, proprietary technology platforms. Matt is now choosing to pick a very valid fight against the fast-growing Arc XP platform. Dan Froomkin describes the start of Arc XP today: The Post started licensing its technology to other news organizations in 2016,…
PublishPress Capabilities is now at version 2.4.2, and this latest release brings several useful new features. Our goal with PublishPress Capabilities is to provide a complete user management tool for WordPress. In this release, we’re moving towards that goal with several new features, including these: More control over Gutenberg and Classic Editor. The ability to…
Mundo Hispanico was the name of a massive media platform in the USA that focused on Spanish-language news. The company has been around for over 40 years and grew thanks to their print editions. The company has just rebranded to MundoNow so they that they can more easily reach Latinos who are prefer to use…
Laura Nelson gave a talk at WordCamp Europe in Porto and I’ve seen several people recommending it. The talk is “Creating a paid newsletter subscription in WordPress”. Laura shows how to create a clone of Substack using WooCommerce and the MailPoet plugin. The videos from this WordCamp are not cut up, so you’ll need to…
There’s a new non-profit publisher in Syracuse, New York called “Central Current“. They’re using WordPress and the Newspack service from Automattic. They’re starting a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $1 million to help them through the first three year. Central Current will always be free. But we need support from readers like you…
One of the main ideas behind PublishPress is that there’s lot of new WordPress-based publishers popping-up. This map from the Institute for Nonprofit News is a good way to see many of these start-up publishers …. the “Rural News Network” is getting ready to launch later this year. If you’re in the US, there’s probably…
A key requirement for publishers is an editorial calendar so that your team can schedule content releases. For WordPress users, the best editorial calendar is probably the PublishPress Calendar plugin. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to the PublishPress Calendar and how it can work for your content team.