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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Block Club Chicago is a start-up with a very specific name and mission: they focus on block-level news in Chicago neighborhoods. They launched via a Kickstarter campaign and now get 70 percent of their annual revenue directly from readers through subscriptions and individual donations:
Fresnoland launches today in the San Joaquin Valley of California. This start-up is supported by Newspack (an Automattic project). Here’s the Fresnoland team’s description of their aims: “Fresnoland exists to make policy public – by, for, and with all residents of the central San Joaquin Valley. We’re not parachute journalists, trying to explain what’s going…