Casey Bisson

<p>GigaOM built this plugin during a 1-day hackathon on August 7, 2012 as a collaborative team building excercise.  The goal was to produce a fully functional, scalable solution that could be used for future events that should be live-blogged.</p>


GigaOM Liveblog

Automattic

John James Jacoby

Gary Jones

Mohammad Jangda

Philip John

Nikolay Bachiyski

<p>Your readers want your updates as quickly as possible, and we think we provide the easiest and most flexible publishing environment to make that happen. Sometimes though, that’s just not enough.</p>
<p>When you’re covering a fast-paced event — the latest Apple unveiling, an F1 Grand Prix or the Super Bowl — a full blog post for each individual update is a poor experience for your authors and your audience.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://wpvip.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.com VIP Liveblog Add-On</a> was purpose-built to address these issues.</p>
<p>Here’s what makes it special:</p>
<ul>
<li>Post updates right from the front end of your site (no need to use the <code>/wp-admin</code> dashboard).</li>
<li>Viewers of your liveblog get new entries served to them instantly and automatically, without needing to refresh.</li>
<li>Authors can drag and drop photos straight into the liveblog area, without separate browser tabs or windows.</li>
<li>No need for a separate site dedicated to liveblogging — every post can be a liveblog, even existing ones.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you’d like to check out the code and contribute, <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog" rel="nofollow ugc">join us on GitHub</a> — pull requests are more than welcome.</p>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>Developer and end-user documentation lives in the <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/tree/develop/docs" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>docs/</code></a> directory:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/docs/end-user-guide.md" rel="nofollow ugc">End user guide</a> — for editors and site administrators.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/docs/customization.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Customization</a> — entry features, key events, hashtags, commands, emoji, shortcodes, template overrides.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/docs/admin-meta-box.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Extending the admin meta box</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/docs/entry-hooks.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Hooking into entries</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/docs/auto-archive.md" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto-archiving</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/docs/websockets.md" rel="nofollow ugc">WebSocket support</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>See <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/liveblog/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md" rel="nofollow ugc">CONTRIBUTING.md</a> for how to set up the development environment and submit changes.</p>


Liveblog

Empowers website owners to provide rich and engaging live event coverage to a large, distributed audience.

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