Core Publisher

An editorially-focused content management system, Core Publisher puts your news and audio at the forefront of the site, while providing tools to meet your membership and underwriting needs as well. In addition, native integration with the NPR Story API provides content sharing capacity across the public media system.

Explore the latest updates below or select a topic:
Core Publisher Updates Core Publisher How Tos Core Publisher Best Practices

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Music Live Events
10:19 am
Thu February 28, 2013

Using Music Live Events in Core Publisher

Taking advantage of NPR Music and NPR Music Station events is now easy to do in Core Publisher. Music Live Events is built as a content type within Core Publisher. Your header and footer will display, but the rest of the screen is taken up by the event video and archived content. You can publish an individual event or an entire channel. When your users click on archived content they will stay on your site.

Set up your Core Publisher site to include automatically populate live events! 

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NPR Story API
4:38 pm
Wed February 27, 2013

Searching NPR API Content

Here's how you can search and browse NPR content in the API.

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Core Publisher Onboarding
12:22 pm
Thu February 7, 2013

Core Publisher Content Import Reources

As part of the Core Publisher on-boarding process, stations can import archived content into their new Core Publisher site. Because of the station effort required to prepare content for import, DS recommends that stations run a content analysis to determine how actively end users are accessing their archive.

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API FAQs
10:54 am
Mon January 28, 2013

Sharing Content with Other Member Stations

During the first Core Publisher sprint demo of 2013, many people showed interest in sharing their content with other stations through Core Pub's new "Browse Station Content Tool." 

After thinking about the variety of ways we could distribute this list, we have decided to allow you to manage the list using our Q&A Café.

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Release Notes
11:25 am
Wed December 19, 2012

Core Publisher: No Sprint Review Today, Regression Test Updates and Defects Addressed

We will not be holding our bi-weekly sprint review webinar this afternoon. All fixes and features will be going live via hotfixes over the next few days. In addition, some of the work covered in this sprint does not require a code change.

Regression Tests

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Core Publisher
2:31 pm
Tue December 18, 2012

Core Publisher Users: What's Your Twitter Handle?

Credit Twitter

We're adding new functionality to Core Publisher so your shares to Twitter appear in the new Cards format. Cards allows Twitter to display your content in a rich media environment - with a photo, for instance. It's a more compelling experience and we're excited to make the stories you publish in CP work with cards.

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Q&A Cafe
6:02 pm
Mon December 3, 2012

Introducing the Q&A Cafe Online FAQ and Collaboration Forum

We are pleased to announce the NPR Digital Services Q&A Cafe that will foster collaboration between stations to get the most out of Core Publisher and the NPR Story API by tapping into a community of users. In addition to asking for help from the DS Support Team, the Q&A Cafe will allow users and subject matter experts assisting each other with getting the most out of Core Publisher and the API. Our long-term goal is to facilitate collaboration with and between stations to share best practices, advice, and helpful tips on using a greater range of select DS products and technology platforms.

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API FAQs
2:57 pm
Mon December 3, 2012

How To Retrieve API Content in Core Pub

1/30/13

UPDATE: You can now easily browse and publish station content in Core Publisher. Please refer to this post for How Tos on browsing station content in Core Pub and finding other stations' orgids

1. Query the API

Paste this query into your browser: http://api.npr.org/query?orgId=pasteorgidyouwanttoqueryhere&apiKey=pasteyourAPIkeyhere

You will see something like the xml pasted below.

2. Find the story

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