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The purpose here is to determine a base set of features and functionality we should include in an offering to small broadcasters, podcasters, and internet stations.
- Responsive, mobile-first theme
- Upload Graphics and Pick Color Schemes
- Choose Page Layouts and Style Page Elements
- No more being locked into only what a theme offers
- Live Interactive Playlists
- Program & spot scheduling
- Live Broadcast
- Listener Statistics and SoundExchange reporting
- Radio Show Profiles
- Built-in Podcast feed
- Import and Broadcast Podcasts
- Customizable Video Player
- Widgets that display video from the media library or from YouTube, Vimeo, and other providers
- Live Streaming
- Analytics and Reporting
- Features that smoothly take readers through an audience-acquisition funnel to become subscribers or members.
- Make it easy to create an online store.
- Accepting payments and donations will be a breeze.
- Per-Program Crowdfunding
- One-Click Donations
- Peer to Peer Campaigns
- Newsletter management
- Signup form and widget
- Easy import/export contacts and mailing lists
- Planning for live events
- Publish to Apple News
- Support for Instant Articles for Facebook
This platform is built on top of Newspack, an advanced open-source publishing and revenue-generating platform for news organizations. Rather than starting from scratch, we are mixing in additional functionality for radio stations, podcasters, and other types of producers in music and media.
Newspack consists of the following plugins that are supported by the Newspack team.
- Newspack – a plugin that installs the Newspack themes, and the required plugins and some of the recommended plugins, automatically.
- Newspack Ads – a plugin that helps connect your Newspack site to various ad providers.
- Newspack Blocks – a collection of custom Gutenberg blocks, designed for building news sites, as well as some extensions to existing Gutenberg blocks.
- Newspack Pop-ups – a plugin that allows you to create AMP-compatible pop-up notifications on your Newspack site.
Newspack requires and supports the following plugins.
- AMP – a plugin that enables AMP, to serve up lightning fast sites.
- Gutenberg – WordPress’s new block-based editor. Newspack runs the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin, which is developed ahead of the version built into WordPress.
- Jetpack by WordPress.com – a plugin developed by Automattic that brings features from WordPress.com to self-hosted sites. Some features used by Newspack sites include Sharing, Site Accelerator, integration with WordAds, and Publicize.
- PWA – a plugin that helps easily turn your WordPress websites into a Progressive Web App (PWA).
- SiteKit by Google – makes it easy to set-up and configure Google Analytics, AdSense, Search Console and PageSpeed Insights, and adds a single dashboard for all to your WordPress Admin.
- Yoast SEO – a powerful plugin that helps you with your site’s search engine optimization.
Newspack has a list of recommended plugins that have been thoroughly reviewed for features, quality, and code. We will include or recommend any of these as we get a better sense of requirements.
The following plugins are not yet supported or recommended by Newspack. We should work with plugin developers to ensure each is compatible and then see if Newspack can recommend.
- The Events Calendar - Create an events calendar and manage it with ease
- Radio Station - a plugin to build and manage a Show Calendar in a radio station or Internet broadcaster’s WordPress website.