MediaPress

The time-saving toolkit for digital newsrooms

Developed by Big Bite in collaboration with world-leading publishers, MediaPress is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to streamline and strengthen editorial workflows.

Fast & flexible publishing tools for WordPress

With six essential features, the plug-and-play toolkit empowers news teams to quickly and easily create, review, and publish high-quality content, providing a significant time-saving advantage in a fiercely competitive market. Beyond accelerating the publishing process, MediaPress also enhances overall efficiency for digital newsrooms, supporting editors and journalists with tools tailored to today’s fast-paced demands.

MediaPress Features

Publication checklist

An invaluable feature for editors, MediaPress’s configurable publication checklist automatically ensures that every article is complete and compliant before it goes live. In real-time, this checklist flags any missing content elements – covering anything from bylines and excerpts to story tags and metadata – with visual indicators tracking completion progress.

Fully customisable to meet specific editorial standards, the checklist not only saves time by eliminating the need for manual checks, but also reduces the risk of oversights. With a safeguard that prevents publication until all required elements are in place, it helps to produce polished, high-quality content every time.

Media manager

Built to simplify image management, this feature lets editors efficiently organise media associated with each news story without sifting through thousands of files. By enabling you to quickly create a dedicated media library for each article, the functionality speeds up the process of uploading, locating, and adding images, saving valuable time and boosting efficiency.

With built-in cropping and adjustment tools, editors can also use the feature to make rapid image edits directly within their WordPress CMS, removing the need for external software and empowering teams to easily create image-rich, engaging articles.

Revisions

A major upgrade to WordPress’s core revisions functionality, this feature tracks all changes made to every article. Editors can effortlessly compare the current version of a story – complete with all dynamic elements such as images, styles, and metadata – against earlier versions, and the differences are clearly highlighted to allow for quick identification of design adjustments and text edits.

The revisions panel also offers an intuitive timeline, making it simple for editors to scroll through the complete history of an article and review its evolution across all saved or published drafts.

Custom fields

Enabling editorial teams to craft meticulously consistent content, this feature makes it possible to create bespoke metadata fields for all articles across an entire publication.

Covering everything from standfirsts and bylines to taxonomies and meta descriptions, the customisable fields and field groups can be configured to adhere to specific editorial guidelines – incorporating style preferences such as character counts – ensuring editors and writers can easily create optimised, on-brand articles.

Save without publishing

A game-changer for digital newsrooms managing time-sensitive or evergreen content, this feature enables you to create a draft copy of an already published article and schedule edits and updates to go live at a specific date and time.

By ensuring your content is always current without manual intervention, this functionality is ideal for teams that handle embargoed stories or prepare updates in advance. Additionally, editors can view both the current and draft versions side-by-side, making it easier to track changes and maintain consistency.

Smart linking

By streamlining the process of adding links within articles, this feature boosts both editorial efficiency and SEO performance. When editing an article, users can quickly search by keywords for relevant, previously published articles, making it easy to locate and insert internal links without leaving the editing screen and breaking the workflow.

This not only plays a vital role in improving search engine rankings, but can also enhance reader experience. Additionally, this feature allows you to connect to third-party feeds, enabling seamless sourcing of external links to build content credibility and signal relevance to search engines.

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