# Aliveblog

*By Simon | August 19, 2026*

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## Aliveblog

Liveblogging done right, again:
a modern solution for modern WordPress,built for Gutenberg and cloud-backed
delivery

![burnham-blog](https://tintou.simondickson.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/08/burnham-blog-1024x531.png)

Leading news websites report that on an _average_ day, **15%** of their total
page views come from their liveblogs.
^([1](https://tintou.simondickson.co.uk/aliveblog/#89297c71-260b-4495-b943-bc0a282af62d))
And when a major story breaks, you can expect the associated liveblog to be one
of the day’s most popular clicks. 🚀

**Aliveblog is a new plugin from Tintou, bringing WordPress liveblogs into the world of block-based development, and the availability of cheap cloud storage.**

## It’s about time.

Aliveblog is the solution built for how WordPress sites are built today.
It’s faster and easier to launch, write, serve, and support liveblogs on any
site.

### It’s just a block

Just add a block into your post, and you’re live. No more weird workarounds.

### Front-end authoring built for speed

Markdown-based content entry with a rich preview and keyboard shortcuts.

### Clean up with AI

You type fast, you make mistakes. Let AI check spelling, grammar before posting.

### Serves as static files

Content served as pre-generated files, reducing the burden on your server.

### No update? No download

Sends 304 Unchanged responses stopping unnecessary downloads.

### Global scale on tap

Pass the job of serving payloads to Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3 and others.

### Highlight summary

Extend your layout with a timeline view, filterable by tag, to highlight key
updates.

### Contributions with attribution

Add existing site Users or create instant guest identities with relevant
context.

### Search engine friendly

Entries are offered to search engines in their preferred LiveBlogPosting format.

### Timezone switcher

My timezone or yours? A dynamic toggle to convert server time to your local
time.

### Lightning-fast search

Instant free-text search powered by your browser, with term highlighting.

### Hooks and filters everywhere

We know you’ll want to make it your own. Add all the actions and filters you
need.

**Liveblogs are often a mark of a serious news website.** You will see major
publishers like the BBC, FranceInfo, Al Jazeera and The Guardian running
multiple liveblogs each day. They are a great tool for drawing and retaining
readers, and often lend themselves to a more human tone of voice. But they need
the right subject, and the right writer.

**Short answer, yes.** It makes innovative use of long-established WordPress
conventions like blocks and comments, and ships with stylesheets which should
work well for a liveblog experience out of the box. But chances are, you’ll want
to adapt or extend its styling to match the rest of your site. The markup is
straightforward, so that shouldn’t be difficult; and you can use the default
stylesheets as a guide.

**As easily as commenting on a web page.** Aliveblog puts a form on the front
end of the website, visible to site users with appropriate permissions, or users
directly added as a Contributor. Aliveblog uses Markdown combined with a
rich-text preview layer, giving the essentials of a WYSIWYG experience without
the technical and cognitive burden of a rich-text editor. Behind the scenes, it
uses the WordPress REST API, opening the door to other publishing methods in
future.

**Not any more.** Aliveblog is designed to reduce the burden on your host as
much as possible. It generates static payload files following every content
update, which can be served without waking up WordPress and querying its
database. And it includes the optioon to push payload files out to global-scale
cloud service providers like Cloudflare or AWS, taking all that weight off your
server – and off your mind, too.

**Aliveblog is still work in progress.** Commercial plans are in development.

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## Keen to find out more?

We are in the final stages of completing a first release build of Aliveblog. If
you’re excited to use it in production, contact Tintou to request early access.

[tintou@simondickson.co.uk](https://tintou.simondickson.co.uk/aliveblog/tintou@simondickson.co.uk)

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1. The Guardian speaking to Press Gazette, August 2026
   [#](https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/live-blogging-mastery-tips-for-publishers-from-guardians-andrew-sparrow/)
   [↩︎](https://tintou.simondickson.co.uk/aliveblog/#89297c71-260b-4495-b943-bc0a282af62d-link)