CivicPress is aiming to bring the Gutenberg block editor to the US government. CivicPress was built by the team at Lone Rock Point, an agency in Boston. This is a Full Site Editing theme and is built according to the…
Most publishers we’ve worked with do not use WordPress to write their content. They prefer platforms such as Google Drive because they can collaborate in real-time. They do this because currently it’s not possible to collaborate on content inside WordPress.…
“Time to Read” offers a feature that you see on many newspaper sites. This feature is available in WordPress now if you’re using the separate Gutenberg plugin. It may be officially added to the WordPress core in a future release.
Just over six years ago today, someone posted an idea in the Gutenberg repository on Github. The idea was just five words: “Implement a block for footnotes“. WordPress 6.3 arrived this week with a Footnotes block that is ready for…
Here at KinshiPress, I write about WordPress for publishers. One of the key players in the WordPress publishing ecosystem is Newspack. They have a hosted service, but it’s also possible to download and use Newspack independently. In this guide, I’ll…
Over the last several years, the WordPress community has focused on the “Gutenberg” project. The aim is to modernize how WordPress works. Phase 1 introduced a new block editor for writing posts. Phase 2 allowed you to use those blocks…
Last year, we covered Block Club Chicago, which is a WordPress-based news start-up. They’ve now reached their 5th birthday and have one of the most inspiring stories in new U.S. journalism. I dug into the Block Club Chicago story this…
We recently covered Block Club Chicago which was is built in partnership with the “Lede” platform from Alley Interactive. We’ve previously covered another Lede site called “Defector”. Lede is one of several new WordPress publishing platforms including Newspack, PaywallProject, and…
Seth Rubenstein is the lead developer at Pew Research. He’s been talking lately about their adoption of Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress publishing. Seth started with a really interesting Twitter thread full of examples: “For all its naysayers Gutenberg is a…
Seth Rubenstein is the lead developer at the Pew Research Center and he posted a very interesting Twitter thread on their use of WordPress and Gutenberg: “For all its naysayers Gutenberg is a game changer for digital news apps. Its…