What is Newspack?

Newspack is one of Pugpig's partners; it's an open-source publishing platform built on WordPress for small to medium news publishers. Pugpig can easily integrate with Newspack sites to transform them into standardised Bolt apps with minimal effort. 

How does Pugpig Bolt integrate with Newspack?

Pugpig Bolt comes integrated with everything you need to get up and running, including Newspack's standard third party providers:

• Content feeds - RSS feeds taken from the site - we've worked with Newspack to ensure all of the standard elements will be already included e.g honouring the Primary category set on articles, sponsor information and more.
• WooCommerce authentication - secure OAuth sign in flow
• Analytics  - Firebase, GA, Parse.ly
• Push notifications - Firebase, OneSignal, Airship
• Advertising - Google Ad Manager, Broadstreet Ads

Please see our full list of productised SDK integrations here.

What's included

As Pugpig is pre-integrated with Newspack, we can get you up and running in just a few days on our base plug and play version of Pugpig Bolt. This includes:

• Full Newspack integration (see above)
• Choose from a selection of cards from our library
• Basic styling included (masthead, fonts, colors)
• App submission managed for you
• Live feeds from your web CMS
• Additional simple card and page styling available as extra
• Comes integrated with Newspack standard third party providers
• Uses standard Pugpig Bolt libraries and features
• Uses standard Newspack feeds
• 1 app update per year included
• 200GB distribution/month and 50GB storage included
• Purchased through your existing Newspack agreement

What do we need from you to get set up?

Full fat RSS feed URLs

We'll syndicate content feeds from your site into curated app timelines
OOTB feed mappings available to automate your workflow i.e we can use flags sent from your feed to mark articles as free or paid. See our RSS overview for more details.

Please note we do not have out of the box support for mapping articles from RSS to the Recirculation Module (Read More) 

WooCommerce Authentication

Test user(s) with active entitlements 
WP Oauth client IDs
WP Oauth redirect URIs

Push notifications

Firebase - create Firebase project and invite analytics@kaldorgroup.com with ‘Owner’ access to your project. 
OneSignal - provide app ID

Analytics 

GA4 - invite analytics@kaldorgroup.com with full access to your project. 
Parse.ly - provide script

Ads

GAM - Ad unit code(s)
Broadstreet - this should be automated as Broadstreet Ad Zones are included in the RSS feeds. This currently only covers support for inline MPUs and bottom banner placement.

App Theming 

Brand Guidelines & Assets
Using your brand colours, assets and fonts, we can infer app styling from your Newspack site