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…
As publishers we spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure our stories are as good as possible, stressing over the words, grammar,and punctuation. So we are worried about losing hard works. What happens…
Normally, on a WordPress site, users can edit unpublished and published content in the same way. However, as a publisher, you know that there’s a big difference between editing unpublished and published content! It’s often important to approve changes to…
One of the things we talk about often at KinshiPress is transparency. Good journalism requires building a kinship between yourself and your audience. In most situations, if you want people to trust your publication, you need to include information about…
Mark Root-Wiley builds WordPress websites for nonprofits. He’s also a member of the Post Status community for WordPress professionals. In the Post Status community, Mark recently shared some interesting changes he had seen in Google’s popular Site Kit plugin for…
One thing we all know about magazines is that they come out in issues. Normally, they have monthly or weekly issues with a selection of topical content. If you want to do that in WordPress, the best plugin is PublishPress…
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…
I was talking with a friend this morning about WordPress sites and Adobe inDesign, so I thought it would be a good day to share “Eight Day Week“. It’s a very cool plugin for publishers who print. When an issue…
If you run a newspaper or magazine site, there may be a lot of activity with authors, editors, and also ordinary users. It’s important for publishers to have an accurate way to track who is making changes on their site.…
WPSiteSync is an interesting WordPress plugin that is now 100% free. The plugin allows you to sync WordPress content across multiple sites. Our team at PublishPress had considered building something like this for publishers, but it did seem like a…