Over 10 years ago, I wrote a post with this title: “There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress“.
In that post I pointed out that WordPress had almost all the features needed to build a social platform and asked, “What might happen if all those WordPress sites were linked together into a network?”
Continue reading “How to Use the WordPress ActivityPub Plugin”Thursday, September 7 was a very interesting day for WordPress publishing.
We saw a significant investment in the space, with the promise of more to come.
Continue reading “What Could the WordPress Community Do for Publishers?”There are a ton of collaborations happening between smaller publishers at the moment. Two or three journalists don’t have the resources to tackle big topics, but they can when they work on stories together.
I find out about many of these stories from the “Center for Cooperative Media” based at Montclair State University in New Jersey. They have an excellent newsletter that covers projects such as Amazon Underworld.
Continue reading “Introducing The Center for Cooperative Media”In July, WordPress saw off a strong potential competitor when the Chorus CMS shut down.
In August, another competitor continues to quickly fade away. The Washington Post laid off more staff from its Arc XP platform:
Continue reading “WordPress Dominates As Rival Publishing Platforms Struggle”Last year, the Post declined offers to sell Arc XP, the company’s in house publishing tool and software business, saying it would instead invest $50 million in the business in 2023. But on August 22, the paper told several top marketing staffers, program managers, and product designers at Arc XP that the Post would be eliminating their roles in the coming weeks.
“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.
Continue reading “Use a Time to Read Block in WordPress”