I'm the guy who suggested to automate WP news...

I feel like every time I suggest something, it should come with a wireframe or info graphic to illustrate the idea as I never seem to get a fair shake or proper platform to explain the entire thing.

Problems with WP News:
1. Only power users seem to care

2. WP news are made of multiple exclusive niches because the core audience have varying levels of WordPress understanding and skills. Some only care about development and some only care about industry happenings. Covering all niches through one RSS feed or one home page like WPTavern, WPDaily, WPCandy, and Postat.us actually dilutes the quality of your effort. For example, people trying to find theme releases and plugin updates might not care about WordPress start-ups and acquisitions, yet they're a huge chunk of the WP news audience.

3. While it's humanly possible to curate WP news, you burn out before it's profitable.

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Those problems are caused by misunderstanding what are actually WordPress news and who power users are. While "power users" is the easiest way to generalize people with deeper WordPress interests, it doesn't illustrate skill levels which influence their WordPress news interests.

WordPress news encompass much more than what WP news sites have been covering. For one example, Github hosted updates of WordPress related projects. But, how many times can you post about Github updates before your readers give negative feedback on quality of posting?

On the flip side, if you were to dedicate an entire page to Github WP-related updates on your site, it would be a different story.

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You could have a large enough team to keep tabs on every sub niche of WP news to keep the entire audience happy, but where is the money going to come from to pay off that team?

Therefore, I suggest automating news posting with moderation and then organize in an easy to digest way across multiple pages of a site, not just one RSS feed or one home page. For example, when reading about theme releases or updates, I want to see theme screenshots. I don't want to consume theme news via texts. It takes the fun out of it.

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We don't know how big the WP news niche is. At the moment, it seems pretty small because sites have been dying left and right, but IMO no one has done WP news right, in a way that makes consuming fun for the audience and in a way that saves time for the curators.