Newspack is an open-source publishing platform built on WordPress for small to medium sized news organizations. It is an “opinionated” platform that stakes out clear, best-practice positions on technology, design, and business practice for news publishers.
If you'd like to install Newspack on your self-hosted site or want to try Newspack out, the easiest way to do so is to enable the Newspack plugin and the latest theme release. To take full advantage of Newspack, the plugin and theme should be run together, but each should also work fine individually.
To disclose a security issue to our team, please submit a report via HackerOne here.
If you have a patch or have stumbled upon an issue with the Newspack plugin/theme, you can contribute this back to the code. Please read the Newspack contributor guidelines for more information on how you can do this.
- Run
npm startto compile the SCSS and JS files, and start file watcher. - Run
npm run buildto perform a single compilation run.
Some features require environment variables to be set (e.g. in wp-config.php):
// Support
define( 'NEWSPACK_SUPPORT_API_URL', 'https://super-tech-support.zendesk.com/api/v2' );
define( 'NEWSPACK_SUPPORT_EMAIL', 'support@company.com' );
define( 'NEWSPACK_WPCOM_CLIENT_ID', '12345' );
// Optional
define( 'NEWSPACK_SUPPORT_IS_PRE_LAUNCH', true );This repository is not suitable for support or general questions about Newspack. Please only use the Newspack issue trackers for bug reports and feature requests, following the contribution guidelines.
Support requests in issues on the Newspack repository will be closed on sight.
The default branch of this repository is where PRs are merged, and has CI that copies default to master after removing the CI directories. This allows customers to clone from master and implement their own CI without needing to worry about potential merge conflicts.
If you are using this repository as a starting point for a custom upstream, be sure to review the documentation and pull the core files from the master branch.
