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How The Draft is built<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A newsroom on WordPress VIP<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Draft is a demonstration publication. Everything you see, from the curated homepage to live coverage, runs on WordPress VIP with core Gutenberg blocks and a small set of well-maintained plugins. Here's the platform underneath, and where to see each part working.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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01<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Edge caching & CDN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every page you read here was served from VIP's global edge cache. A breaking story can take an election-night traffic spike with zero extra configuration, and the breaking news bar purges only what changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> Reload this page: the second load comes straight from the edge.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Enterprise Search<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On-site search and the complex queries behind personalised rails run on VIP's Elasticsearch-backed Enterprise Search, not the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> Try the search in the masthead.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Image CDN<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every photo is resized, compressed and delivered responsively by VIP's image CDN. There's no image plugin, and no oversized hero images on mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> Open the photo essay on a throttled connection.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Horizontal autoscaling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Containerised infrastructure scales out automatically under load. The election-night spike doesn't need an ops call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> Ask about the busiest news night you've had.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Security & compliance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FedRAMP-authorised hosting, SSO and two-factor login, a read-only production file system, and a full audit log of content and code changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> A dedicated beat for infosec and legal stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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VIP Workflows (beta)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Editors model the newsroom's real process as stages: draft, copy edit, standards review, scheduled. Each transition carries its own tools, notifications and role rules, and an AI agent can own a stage with bars it must clear before content moves on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> Open any draft and look at the Workflow sidebar. VIP Workflows is pre-GA and labelled Beta throughout this demo.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Headless-ready<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everything here is also available over the WordPress REST API with no extra setup, for apps, partners or a future re-platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> Add \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts to this site's address.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Multisite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One installation can run many mastheads and regional editions, sharing code, users and workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> A second edition is one command away.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GitHub-backed deploys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mandatory code review, hourly backups, 24\/7 monitoring, and a local environment that mirrors production. That's what makes a newsroom's bespoke code safe to ship often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> The breaking news block on this site shipped through exactly this flow.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Parse.ly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trending rails and editor-side performance data come from Parse.ly, part of the same Automattic family as VIP, Jetpack and WordPress.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See it:<\/strong> The Trending now rail on the homepage.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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