Today, I’m delighted to announce that we’ve adopted the “Organize Series” plugin and extensions. “Organize Series” is a plugin that allows you to group 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. The plugin aligns perfectly with…
PublishPress Blocks is a plugin that adds over 20 extra blocks to the Gutenberg interface, along with custom layouts, CSS styles, and permissions for blocks. There are many Gutenberg plugins available, but PublishPress Blocks is different. This plugin has a strong focus on being useful for publishers and content creators. If you want to see…
We all know that local newspapers are in trouble. At least 25% of US papers have closed in the last 15 years. But there are also positive signs: if you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. These new projects are innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress. That last point really…
We often hear about old newspaper companies that are struggling. But there’s a good chance that 2020 was a turning point for successful new journalists. If you look carefully, we’re seeing many fresh, independent media projects. The business model for these new projects is different. They are ditching corporate ownership in favor of a model…
If you’re running a busy website, it’s important to get a clear understanding of what content is being published. The PublishPress plugin does offer a Calendar view where you can see all your content in a week-by-week layout. However, a Calendar view must inevitably hide some information or else it would become unbearably crowded. For…
Meredith Corporation is a huge media group that owns magazines, television stations, websites, and radio stations. You have almost certainly heard of many of their brands including People, Entertainment Weekly, Travel and Leisure, and Martha Stewart Living. They recently finished migrating millions of articles and images into a company-wide CMS based in WordPress. The company…
Welcome to another post in this series which focuses on the very best publishers using WordPress. We’re not always looking for household brand names. We’re also searching for publishers who are building new, brave and innovative platforms. That description perfectly describes MountainStateSpotlight.org which publishes news for West Virginia.
Welcome to another post in our series that features exciting WordPress publishers. We’re not always looking for household brand names. We’re also searching for publishers who are building new, brave and innovative platforms. This week’s WordPress site is a new site with a long history. Defector.com is a sports and media blog that is owned…
Zack Katz from GravityView is someone I’ve admired for a long time. His team have run some of the coolest initiatives I’ve seen. At the end of last year, they gave $5 from each sale to charities and then they quadrupled those donations from their own pocket. They plant trees with Ecologi to offset their…
Welcome to another post in our series that features innovative WordPress publishers. This publisher is a new project: The 19th launched in August. The name of the site comes from the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment was passed in 1920 and gave women the right to vote. The 19th has a clear…