PressForward
PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard. It is designed for bloggers and editorial teams who wish to collect, discuss, and share content from a variety of sources on the open web.
PressForward helps you:
- Collect content from the web via a feed reader and a bookmarklet
- Discuss content through a collaborative editing interface
- Share content using best practices for attribution and citation
Collect
- Aggregate content using RSS/Atom feeds
- Capture any web content with a bookmarklet
- Import full text, image, video content, and post metadata
- Batch add feeds using OPML files
- Integrate standardized content with Readability
Discuss
- Discuss content internally with private commenting
- Count nominations from teams of contributors and editors
- Expose item metadata, including the name of the source and method of nomination
Share
- Allow contributors to send items directly to their own Twitter account
- Attach full content, attribution link, canonical URL, and metadata to WordPress Posts as Draft
- Republish any content type supported by your theme (text, image, quote, snippet, etc.)
- Optional auto-redirect back to original source
- Export an RSS feed that combines all content from site’s feed list
Instructions for use are found in our User Manual.
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The PressForward Plugin is developed and maintained by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as part of the PressForward Project, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Our developers include Aram Zucker-Scharff, Boone B. Gorges, and Jeremy Boggs. PressForward is free to use and modify under a GNU GPL2 license.
Detailed information about our code can be found on our GitHub Wiki.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.