Importing a Whole Newspaper Edition from One ZIP File
Production desks already export a folder of page files every night. Here is how Inkfold 1.1 turns that folder, zipped, into a complete draft edition in one upload, with supplements and the print PDF attached.
MikroTik Billing Automation: Making Renewals Safe to Repeat
How we built MikroTik billing automation into Linkhive: billing steps that are safe to repeat, an atomic claim that stops double renewals, gateway checks, and a router layer that never blocks a payment.
Turning a Print PDF into Clickable Stories with Text Coordinates
The print PDF already contains every word of the paper and where it sits on the page. Here is how Inkfold uses those coordinates so that drawing a box around a story fills in its headline and text by itself.
A Multilingual, Right-to-Left Newspaper Reader in Laravel
Many of the newspapers that need an e-paper do not publish in English. Here is how we made the Inkfold reader site multilingual in Laravel, including right-to-left Arabic, without touching the printed pages.
Offline E-Paper Reading with a Service Worker and a Web App Manifest
Readers open the morning paper on the train, where the signal drops between stations. Here is how Inkfold 1.1 became an installable web app that keeps the edition you opened readable offline, without an app store.
Shop Filters With URLs You Can Share
Filter state kept in the address bar instead of JavaScript memory, so a filtered view can be bookmarked, shared, and reached with the back button.
Building a Two-Page Spread Viewer for a Digital Newspaper
A newspaper is designed in spreads, so reading it one page at a time loses something. Here is how we added a two-page spread to the Inkfold e-paper without breaking zoom, story clicks or small screens.
Serving Newspaper Pages Fast: WebP, a Medium Size and Zoom on Demand
A printed page is a 2000-pixel image, and readers open a dozen of them on a phone. Here is how the Inkfold e-paper keeps that fast: WebP in three sizes, a medium image first and the full one only when the reader zooms in.
WordPress Social Media Scheduler Plugin: How We Built One for 12 Networks
How we built a WordPress social media scheduler plugin that publishes to 12 networks from one Create Post window, with a calendar, carousels, approvals and automatic retries.
How We Built a WordPress Invoice Plugin: Architecture, Security and Lessons Learned
The full build log of our WordPress invoice plugin: what it does, how its data model and REST API are designed, the security model, the bugs we fixed, and what it took to prepare it for the WordPress.org directory.