From Gdocs to WordPress : a complete web-first workflow for newspaper
December 14, 2011
Since June, the Bangor Daily News has a new workflow for its articles to be published all the way down from online to offline. Worth having a look, if you want to build some community-managed publications. It uses gDocs for editing and WordPress for publishing, very straightforward. It is all free, open-source and the code can be found here !
Thanks to Lauren Rabaino for the write-up and William Davis for the screencast.
A truly web-first workflow
- Reporters and editors compose all stories in Google Docs. Using labels and native commenting, the stories get sent through the editing process.
- When a story is ready to publish, it gets sent from Google Docs to WordPress with one click.
- In WordPress, editors can publish the story to the web, then set up a print headline and print subhead.
- The story then appears in inDesign, where print designers can lay out the print newspaper.
Quoted from 10 000 Words blog
2 responses to "From Gdocs to WordPress : a complete web-first workflow for newspaper"
It is all free, open-source and the code can be found here !
Well, SOME elements of the chains are free, InDesign is all but an open source program, and Google Docs are not open source neither, am I wrong? So that’s a “free-plugin-in-the-middle” attack
I was talking about the plugin only
But yes you’re actually right.
inDesign and gDocs aren’t open source at all…