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.…
The Times is nearly 250 years old and is one of the most famous newspapers in the UK. It has a sister paper called The Sunday Times which publishes only once per week. In recent years, The Times has focused…
Creating content can be a complex process if a lot of users are involved. And when it comes to giving attribution, sometimes it’s not enough to group everyone together as an “Author”. Wouldn’t it be better to give accurate attribution…
“The logical solution was for newspapers to form groups and cooperate, establishing networks of reporters whose dispatches would be telegraphed back to a central office and then made available to all member newspapers.” I came across that quote from Tom Standage in his…
When you’re writing a story in WordPress, have you ever wanted to label it something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? If so, you are not alone because I often hear this request from publishers we work with. The root…
A few months ago, I wrote about the Lede platform from Alley Interactive. They’ve helped launch the highly-successful Defector and Block Club Chicago sites. One of the many things to admire about Lede is that they actively help journalists lead…
The Medill School of Journalism put out their annual “State of Local News Project” this week. Yes, local news is dying. Here’s a quote from Medill: “Since 2005, the U.S. has lost nearly 2,900 newspapers. The nation is on pace…
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.…
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. The key Newspack plugins are all available on Github. Over at PublishPress, we’ve…
There’s a fascinating story around the work of Flatwater Free Press (FFP), a WordPress publisher in Nebraska. Yanqi Xu is a reporter for FFP. She won a national award for “Our Dirty Water”, a series about Nebraska’s high nitrate levels…