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Welcome to the PressForward wiki!

About

PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard. It is designed by the [Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media] (http://chnm.gmu.edu) for bloggers and editorial teams who wish to collect, discuss, and share content from a variety of sources on the open web.

Getting Started with PressForward

There are a number of ways to get started using the plugin:

You can learn more about how PressForward has been prototyped and developed on our main project website. There you also will find additional details about our scalable and reproducible publication model for scholarly communities who wish to distribute high-quality, open scholarship.

Developer Handbook

We welcome volunteers to help develop and extend PressForward functionality or modules. Our GPL2 license also allows you to fork and modify the code to suit your needs.

You can find detailed information about the code on this wiki, including issues that are good for beginners.

The PressForward Plugin is developed and maintained by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as part of the PressForward Project, generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Our developers include Aram Zucker-Scharff, Boone B. Gorges, and Jeremy Boggs. PressForward is free to use and modify under an AGPLv3 license.

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