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WordPress in the Newsroom

About me: Mohammad (Mo) Jangda

mo@automattic.com | batmoo@gmail.com | @mjangda

Code Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP (Automattic)
Core Contributor to WordPress
Imprint (University of Waterloo) Alum
NASH 2007
Background in News, Publishing, Tech
Ice Cream Fan

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DISCLAIMER #1

A lot of the plugins I will talk about are mine or have significant contributions by me. Not because I’m being self-serving asshat but because these are some of the best tools for newsrooms to use.

DISCLAIMER #2

Tailor everything to your community and newsroom’s needs and culture; there is “no one size fits all” approach.

Scientific Fact of the Day!

17.5% of the web uses WordPress

(New York Times, TIME, CNN, CBS Local, National Post, Quartz, Boing Boing, Mashable, etc.)

Unscientific Fact of the Day!

80% of Canadian University newspapers use WordPress to power their sites.

It’s hip to be WordPress

But do you really know and use WordPress?

Leveraging Structured Data

WordPress is a semantic publishing platform.

Custom Post Types

A custom post type is nothing more than a regular post with a different MARKDOWN_HASH01b0357bbb461420eb0aced7e3c2fcb9MARKDOWN_HASH value in the database. The post type of regular posts is post, pages use page, attachments use attachment and so on. You can now create your own to indicate the type of content created. You could create custom post types for books, movies, reviews, products and so on.

— Smashing Magazine (http://wp.smashingmagazine.com)

Custom Taxonomies

WordPress’ custom taxonomies make it possible to structure large amounts of content in a logical, well-organized way. In WordPress, categories are set up as a hierarchal taxonomy, and tags are set up as a multifaceted taxonomy […] A large news organization could organize its content by world region (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, US & Canada), as the BBC does in its “World” section.

— Smashing Magazine (http://wp.smashingmagazine.com)

Post Metadata

WordPress lets you add arbitrary metadata to posts. Movie Ratings. Pull quotes. Geolocation.

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Leveraging Media

Easy Galleries. Easy Embeds.

HULK NOW A JOURNALIST FOR FREEDOM! HULK SMASH LIES!

— Journalist Hulk (@iiefhwpi23hdkwd) January 10, 2011

Leveraging Mobile

Make the mobile app a pre-requisite for all your editors and reporters.

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Leveraging Real-time

Liveblogging. All the things.

liveblog

Leveraging Social

Social Commenting
Social Sharing
Social Publishing

Plugin: Jetpack

jetpack.me

jetpack

Leveraging a Web-first Workflow

WordPress is your central hub and content store.

Plugin: Edit Flow

Edit Flow gives you custom statuses, a calendar, editorial comments, and more, all to make it much easier for your team to collaborate within WordPress.

Edit Flow: Calendar

A convenient month-by-month look at your content

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Edit Flow: Custom Statuses

Define the key stages to your workflow.

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Edit Flow: Editorial Comments

Threaded commenting in the admin for private discussion between writers and editors

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Edit Flow: Everything Else

Notifications – Receive timely updates on the content you’re following.
User Groups – Keep your users organized by department or function.
Editorial Metadata – Keep track of the important details.
Story Budget – View all of your upcoming posts in a more traditional story budget view, and hit the print button to take it to your planning meeting.