Boone Gorges

Joan Fragaszy Troyano

Amanda Regan

Jeremy Boggs

PressForward

Aram Zucker-Scharff

lmrhody

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:
<ul>
<li>Collect content from the web via a feed reader and a bookmarklet</li>
<li>Discuss content through a collaborative editing interface</li>
<li>Share content using best practices for attribution and citation</li>
</ul>
Collect
<ul>
<li>Aggregate content using RSS/Atom feeds</li>
<li>Capture any web content with a bookmarklet</li>
<li>Import full text, image, video content, and post metadata</li>
<li>Batch add feeds using OPML files</li>
<li>Integrate standardized content with <a href="https://www.readability.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Readability</a></li>
</ul>
Discuss
<ul>
<li>Discuss content internally with private commenting</li>
<li>Count nominations from teams of contributors and editors</li>
<li>Expose item metadata, including the name of the source and method of nomination</li>
</ul>
Share
<ul>
<li>Allow contributors to send items directly to their own Twitter account</li>
<li>Attach full content, attribution link, canonical URL, and metadata to WordPress Posts as Draft</li>
<li>Republish any content type supported by your theme (text, image, quote, snippet, etc.)</li>
<li>Optional auto-redirect back to original source</li>
<li>Export an RSS feed that combines all content from site’s feed list</li>
</ul>
Instructions for use are found in our <a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">User Manual</a>.
<a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/FAQ#how-does-pressforward-compare-to-other-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">See how we compare to other WordPress plugins</a>.
The PressForward Plugin has been developed and maintained by <a href="https://digitalscholar.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Digital Scholar</a> since 2019. <a href="https://boone.gorg.es" rel="nofollow ugc">Boone B. Gorges</a> is the lead developer. The plugin was originally developed by the <a href="https://chnm.gmu.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media</a> at <a href="https://gmu.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">George Mason University</a> as part of the <a href="https://pressforward.org" rel="nofollow ugc">PressForward Project</a>, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Previous developers include <a href="http://aramzs.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Aram Zucker-Scharff</a>, and Jeremy Boggs. PressForward is free to use and modify under a <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GNU GPL3 license</a>.
<a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/Devbook" rel="nofollow ugc">Detailed information about our code</a> can be found on our <a href="https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Wiki</a>.


This does so much more than PressThis! ever did and it does it well. The developers are also responsive to useful feedback and ideas.


More than just a replacement for Press This!

PressForward provides an integrated workflow for curating content aggregated from the web.

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