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 you to use! This is going to be a very useful addition for many WordPress publishers.
Continue reading “How to Use the Footnotes Block in WordPress”Many recent local journalism stories can be hard to follow. There are often a lot of organizations involved with confusing names and purposes. That is true in this story about “Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk” also known as “AGWaterDesk”.
Ag & Water Desk (as we’ll call them for short) has just received $2.5 million grant to expand their mission. That story includes Report for America, Missouri School of Journalism, the Society of Environmental Journalists, Walton Family Foundation, and dozens of media outlets.
Fortunately Ag & Water Desk have a great explainer video that outlines what they do and how they’ll spend that grant:
Continue reading “Ag & Water Desk is a WordPress-Powered Publisher with a Great Mission, and Explainer Video”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 introduce Newspack and show how you can use it for self-hosted projects.
Continue reading “How to Use Newspack for Any WordPress Publisher”WordPress has seen off another competitor. The Chorus CMS is being shut down.
Vox Media had developed Chorus for its own websites. Vox owns a ton of news and culture properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, and Vulture.
As Chorus grew, Vox also tried to attract external publishers onto the platform. Chorus became a rival to WordPress.
However, Vox has struggled in recent years and is going to re-focus on selling advertising and subscriptions. Back in December, Vox stopped selling Chorus. Now, Axios breaks the news that Vox will retire Chorus and move their own sites to WordPress VIP.
The whole Axios article reads like a sponsored ad for WordPress. Here are some of the quotes:
Continue reading “Vox Media Moves to WordPress and Ditches Their Chorus CMS”Tags and Categories are a great way to organize WordPress content. With one click, you can create a Tag or Category that can connect all the stories on your site.
If you have a large number of authors, or have just been writing for a while, you may have noticed that some of the terms are duplicated. Here are some examples:
Continue reading “Use Synonyms to Clean Up Your WordPress Tags”