If you are a magazine/news publisher or WordPress developer you might want to pay attention to May 31st. We will be releasing IssueM as open source (along with some other WordPress goodies). Why are we doing this? Lot’s of reasons: The IssueM plugin is the best issue based solution for WordPress and we want everyone [...]
New IssueM version: Add issue name to current issue page & Permissions update
Version 1.1.8 is out the door, please update! The latest version now adds a shortcode to display the current issue name: [issuem_issue_title] This gives you one more way to let readers know what issue they are currently reading. In the example below you can see the name of the issue above the articles list. Permissions update [...]
New IssueM version: Swedish translation & displaying a specific issue
We have release version 1.1.6 which adds Swedish translation to the IssueM plugin, more control over displaying a specific issue and bugfixes. The following language translations are now available: Spanish Swedish Specific issue display can now be controlled by the issue slug. If you need to publish a specific issue on a specific page or [...]
New mobile responsive design, Spanish translation, and faster Author credits
We have an update to the IssueM plugin, please update. The current version is now 1.1.5 Major updates to the plugin include: Mobile responsive design: the featured rotator images, thumbnail images, and output now scale to fit mobile devices (requires a responsive theme). Quickly add author credit without having to add a new WordPress user (check off [...]
Here come the contest winners that showed off their magazine sites
Warning: Publishing wisdom ahead. The following winners were chosen by random drawing. They will each receive a 1 year license extension for their IssueM plugin. I am also delighted to read the thoughts that were shared about their publishing experiences (they are included below). I thank you for taking the time to write! Liquid Imagination From the [...]
Quick reflection… we updated the IssueM plugin 13 times in less than a year
It’s been less than a year in the making but our IssueM plugin has seen some significant improvements in a short period of time: A few of the highlights include: Hiding the draft issues RSS feed so Google doesn’t crawl through them Letting you order articles using the WordPress Order field Ordering Issues in [...]
Easily add an advanced search page to your publication
Let your readers easily put their finger on an article you published. Let them search through all your articles and issues by: Keyword Issue Category Add this simple shortcode to any page: [issuem_advanced_search] and this is what you will get:
The IssueM Developer version is now available
We just released the IssueM Developer version which allows you to use the plugin on unlimited urls as well as WordPress MultiSite. If you would like to upgrade from the single version please email support@issuem.com with your paypal email address and we will hook you up. You will only pay the difference between the single [...]
IssueM plugin version 1.0.9 is out – Filtering article categories
Yes it’s time to download the latest version of the IssueM plugin for WordPress. Version 1.0.9 lets you display specific categories of articles on your current issue page (or any page or post for that matter). This is helpful if you are dealing with a large volume of articles and want to IE: only display [...]
Middlebury College news site built with WordPress & IssueM
Middlebury recently rebuilt their MiddleburyCampus.com news site. Their point of pain was workflow as their current news site was slow and difficult to manage. Middlebury also publishes the campus news in print every week and needed to be able to publish digital editions to match this schedule. What did they do? They turned to WordPress. Here were [...]
