#33
Yara Mensah
WP Taverm Jukebox with Alex Harlan
Episode
#33 – Yara Mensah on WordPress in Public Media Newsrooms
Yara Mensah runs WordPress where the homepage is a public service. Lockouts, embargoes, and writers who paste from Google Docs anyway.
by Alex Harlan·April 22, 2026·with Yara Mensah
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https://wptaverm.com/feed/podcast/Public media newsrooms do not get to be cute about uptime. Yara walks through roles, scheduled reviews, and why the Block Editor’s lock matters when two people think they own the lead.
We talk about embargoes that live in a custom status, and the moment you should stop using pages for everything.
If you edit other people’s words under a deadline, this will sound like your Slack.
