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Liveblog

by Automattic

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Description

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.

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.

The WordPress.com VIP Liveblog Add-On was purpose-built to address these issues.

Here’s what makes it special:

  • Post updates right from the front end of your site (no need to use the /wp-admin dashboard).
  • Viewers of your liveblog get new entries served to them instantly and automatically, without needing to refresh.
  • Authors can drag and drop photos straight into the liveblog area, without separate browser tabs or windows.
  • No need for a separate site dedicated to liveblogging — every post can be a liveblog, even existing ones.

If you’d like to check out the code and contribute, join us on GitHub — pull requests are more than welcome.

Documentation

Developer and end-user documentation lives in the docs/ directory:

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to set up the development environment and submit changes.

  1. Upload the liveblog folder to your plugins directory (e.g. /wp-content/plugins/).
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Enable the liveblog on any post’s edit page.
  1. The entry form is the simplest possible.

    The entry form is the simplest possible.

  2. Writers can preview before posting.

    Writers can preview before posting.

  3. Adding images is a matter of just drag and drop.

    Adding images is a matter of just drag and drop.

  4. Dragged photos are automatically inserted.

    Dragged photos are automatically inserted.

  5. Typical liveblog view.

    Typical liveblog view.

Ok liveblog

By Bjørn Nielsen (bplndk) on December 18, 2023

Great plugins! Just need to figure out how they work… but once I do, they're really well made

Awful Plugin

By edwardyves2 on January 11, 2019

I think this plugin is not good at all. Plus the customer service is bad, to me it seem that person not really know how to addressing or resolve my issue.

Plug-in is off

By Andrew (papex) on September 20, 2018

Плагин выключен. И не больше не работает. Поддержка исчезла. На странице их сайта замок. The plugin is disabled. And does not work anymore. Support disappeared. On the page of their site is the castle.

A few things broken

By smbutler79 on August 31, 2018

The plugin does post information as specified and was a decent option when we used several work arounds to get our posts up cleanly. We are no longer using this plugin because of several broken features. Browsing through the support page, it looks like all of my complaints are on there with ZERO response from the developers. The apostrophe issue is the major one (code &x27; instead of '), embeds are not working as they should, word wrapping instead of breaking and the text editor has a scrolling window that continuously types content instead of wrapping making it very hard to see content. We need simplicity in design just like the WordPress Posts and Pages. Appreciate the effort as it is a powerful tool, just not 100% complete yet. I have non web people using the plugin and they need simple simple simple.

Not Good!

By kennylai5 on July 12, 2018

Wish there is more tech support.

Great!

By tiotrom on April 26, 2018

Not sure why many gave so little stars. For me it works quite well. What it lacks is the ability to add it as a shortcode to any page. Right now the only way to add it is to a post, which is very limiting. Anyways, super useful plugin. Thanks!

Best plugin for Live

By Jalal Torabi (jalaltorabi) on December 14, 2017

This Plugin is Very good ! Thanks !!

Doesn't work anymore

By rinoadiary on November 26, 2016

it doesn't work anymore, and the support team's disappeared

Great plugin, an update needed

By (victormarian) on September 3, 2016

I use this plugin for our technology website and i really like it.
The only function that is not done is the lightbox image opening. If your uploading a picture, the picture has no link and will not open in new window or lightbox. This can be a good and useful update to consider for the future.

Does what it says

By matthew.a.hawker on September 3, 2016

This plugin does exactly what it says. It works well, is easy to use (drag and drop FTW!) and is stable. I know that's kind of a banal review, but who could want more?

See the full changelog on GitHub.

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