How people find information, including your site’s content, is changing—fast. AI search tools like Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity AI’s Deep Research, and Grok DeepSearch are redefining the way we search, summarize, and discover content. Being a “power searcher” used to mean knowing your Boolean operators. Now, it means knowing how to ask an AI to…
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Does this sound familiar? You are in a deadline-focused organization and the work to maintain and improve your website is ruled by the tyranny of the urgent. You’re constantly in reactive mode, responding to bugs, maintenance issues, and urgent feature requests. As a result, seizing opportunities to build greater value into your website go unexplored…
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The challenges faced by news outlets and their teams are well documented: vanishing print subscriptions, limited ad revenue, the domineering whims of search and social media, and doing more reporting with fewer resources. Maybe these are all too real for you and your organization. But one topic rarely explored is the connection between these challenges…
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A spectre is haunting the open source CMS community—the spectre of Medium.
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Jotham Sederstrom’s public reaction to being fired cold by the New York Daily News for appearing to publish plagiarized content is remarkable in its candor and its acceptance of blame but belies the pressing issue at hand for those of us who build news websites. Jotham would still be toiling away for his teetering employer if not for a harebrained Content Management System…
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Let your readers get news on the go. The 1.0.0 version of the Apple News plugin is now available for download for any WordPress or WordPress VIP site. Now any publisher can push their WordPress content directly into the Apple News platform with a few simple actions.
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WordPress natively handles a number of different content migrations from various platforms. However, these will not work for all organizations either due to custom requirements for data transformation or because the data is being migrated from a non-supported or proprietary system. In these instances, writing a custom script is unavoidable. Furthermore, as WordPress becomes widely…
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I recently upgraded my laptop to the current top-spec MacBook Air, which has been a big improvement. I took the opportunity to reconfigure my local web server, and came up with a configuration that has already saved me quite a bit of time, since I touch so many projects that come through our company. This…
