These posts feature news and interviews about the environmental impact of WordPress and the web technology we use.
About four years ago, I wrote about The 19th. I came across their work because they’re a PublishPress customer. One thing about the 19th that’s particularly interesting for WordPress users is their overlap with open-source ideas.
“The logical solution was for newspapers to form groups and cooperate, establishing networks of reporters whose dispatches would be telegraphed back to a central office and then made available to all member newspapers.” I came across that quote from Tom Standage in his book “The Victorian Internet“. He was talking about the 1840s when news agencies like the…
Many recent local journalism stories can be hard to follow. There are often a lot of organizations involved with confusing names and purposes. That is true in this story about “Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk” also known as “AGWaterDesk”. Ag & Water Desk (as we’ll call them for short) has just received $2.5…
“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 ->…
Pluribus News is a new start-up which is aiming to cover every state government across the United States. Pluribus launches with 6 staff members. The founder Reid Wilson worked at The Washington Post and The Hill newspaper. The other staff also join from The Hill and other papers in Washington DC. The initial plan is…
The Institute for Nonprofit News has just published interviews with 3 WordPress-based sites that cover LGBTQ issues. Click here to read the interviews. Here’s a list the three sites. They’re all non-profits, and a couple of these launched very recently. Yes Magazine: This is the most established publisher of the three. Their focus Explanatory journalism…
There’s a WordPress-based publisher that has been filling up my news feed with a medical insurance story today: Here’s the story: “Need an organ transplant in Mississippi? You may be out of luck thanks to an insurance dispute“ Mississippi Today is a non-profit that started in 2016 with a focus on statehouse government. They’ve grown…
Want to be impressed by what a small independent publisher can do with WordPress? Check out this story from British Columbia, with photos, graphics and text. If you asked me to pick one new WordPress publisher that I follow and admire most, it would be probably be The Narwhal. Since 2018, they’ve grown to over…
There is a small, but growing, number of WordPress developers who are interested in environmental issues. WordPress now runs an incredible 40% of all websites. The work that we do has an impact. If WordPress sites consume large amounts of energy, then that has knock-on effects for the whole web. I’ve searched for some of…
Johannes is the Managing Director of Raidboxes, a fast-growing WordPress hosting company based in Germany. He’s also one of the most interesting people I’ve met in WordPress. I first heard of Raidboxes when they were giving out trees to Wordcamp attendees! Johannes and his team think differently. Raidboxes is growing fast, doubling every year and…