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.
I was talking with a friend this morning about WordPress sites and Adobe inDesign, so I thought it would be a good day to share “Eight Day Week“. It’s a very cool plugin for publishers who print. When an issue of your magazine or newspaper is ready to go, you can move it from WordPress…
Over at LeakyPaywall, Peter Ericson has a great article on whether you should offer a subscription level that hides ads. His main example is Samsnytt, a WordPress-based publisher from Sweden. Samsnytt tries to upsell users to a special plan with an “ad-free experience”.
PublishPress Series is a plugin that we acquired last year. The Series plugin allows you to collect WordPress content together into a series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. Over the last few months, we’ve been working to modernize the…