When you’re publishing with WordPress, you have the option to enable comments on your posts. WordPress has a powers comments system available as a core feature.
You can find the “Comments” screen in the WordPress admin menu. Check out the screenshot below to see where the Comments screen is located.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to manage which users can manage comments on your WordPress publication.
Continue reading “Allow WordPress Users to Manage Comments On Posts”I popped onto the Scale podcast with Stewart Ritchie to talk about how WordPress is powering a lot of new publishers. The topic was the PublishPress plugins, and how running that business has helped us discover hundreds of publishing start-ups.
The interview is 35 minutes long. If you’re short of time, the meat of the conversation starts around the 8 minute mark:
Continue reading “WordPress Publishing Interview on the Scale Podcast”I’ve talked about the work of INN (Institute for Nonprofit News) regularly here on KinshiPress. They are doing a superb job of building a community of new publishing start-ups.
The INN has a new innovation called the Rural News Network. This is a WordPress-powered hub for local news sites, almost all powered by WordPress too.
This site features several publishers covered including Honolulu Civic Beat, Mississippi Free Press, and Mountain State Spotlight.
Continue reading “Rural News Network Launches on WordPess”I’ve just come across a documentary about a WordPress-powered newspaper in Iowa.
The movie is called “Storm Lake” and was filmed in Storm Lake, Iowa. Check out the IMDB listing.
The movie’s synopsis is, “Art Cullen and his family and colleagues at Iowa’s Storm Lake Times, fight-at the local level-for the survival of their biweekly small-town newspaper.”
The Storm Lake Times is the second smallest newspaper ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. The Storm Lake Times has a WordPress-powered website at StormLake.com.
Here’s the movie trailer:
Continue reading “Storm Lake: Movie About a WordPress Powered Newspaper in Iowa”This is the third time we’ve hosted “WP Publisher Sessions”, where we explore how publishers can grow their audience and revenue.
This week we have a special guest, Fränk Klein, who is currently a Principal Engineer at Human Made. He specialises in high traffic websites and has been the lead engineer on projects such as The Sun relaunch, and the redesign of TechCrunch. He’s also a self-taught developer with a side project, WP Development Courses, that teaches WordPress freelancers and agencies the technical skills they need to succeed. We covered the technical issues very large publishers run into when building and maintaining their websites, from caching, to headless and more.