PublishPress Series is the WordPress plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic. Here are some ways to use the plugin:
Evan Prodromou is often called “The father of the Fediverse”. It’s amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more! The Fediverse consists of independent social networking platforms including Mastodon (micro-blogging), PeerTube (videos), Pixelfed (images) and more. Just like WordPress, most of the Fediverse…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I talk with Than Taintor from the Human Made agency and Zeshan Ahmed from Green Street News. Together they’ve been part of the project to revamp the Green Street News website. Green Street News is a major real estate publisher. They’re based out of the UK, but have…
Have you heard of Google’s E-E-A-T guidelines? This acronym stands for Expertise, Experience, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. If you have a WordPress website, E-E-A-T is going to have some influence on where you appear in Google’s search results. Google wants to see that your posts can be trusted, so you need to show that posts are…
Simea is part of a digital agency called Morntag, based in Switzerland. Her agency helps people navigate between different worlds. Many of Simea’s customer are traditional print publishers and they need her help to navigate the online world including WordPress, AI and YouTube. Also the customers often need to work in different linguistic worlds including…
Does it matter how many words you write on a topic? Some books are famously short. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” barely reaches 60 pages, but it has inspired movies and TV shows for decades. Some books are famously long. “Moby Dick” is over 700 pages, but it has also been…
Carol Cavaleiro lives in Brazil and supports journalists across North and South America through her work at Indiegraf. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Carol discusses her journey from co-founding the fact-checking agency AusFatos in Brazil to becoming a product director at Indiegraf, a Canadian publishing platform. We talk about misinformation, and the importance…
At the beginning of 2022, Tyler Channel published a short two minute video to Twitter. The video was elegantly done and introduced The Welch News, a small newspaper in West Virginia. That video led to a detailed article in WPTavern with more background on the newspaper and Tyler’s work. Tyler runs PaywallProject and tried to…
Indiegraf is a 3-year old company that is having a positive impact for many WordPress publishers. They’re a WordPress hosting platform for publishers, in a similar space to Newspack, PaywallProject, Lede, and others.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we interview Pete Ericson, the founder of Leaky Paywall. He has many years of experience building paywalls for publishers. Pete says that publishers are still nervous about paywalls, but increasingly see how valuable they can be. We talk a lot about the importance of newsletters in building audience…