Title: Daily Kos
Author: Nicholas Garofalo
Published: August 16, 2026
Last modified: August 13, 2026

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# Daily Kos

[www.dailykos.com](http://www.dailykos.com)

Daily Kos is an independent, reader-funded progressive media and community platform
where professional journalism lives right alongside stories written by the people
who read it. For two decades, it has grown into something more than a news site.
It’s a place where members create their own posts, form groups, build profiles, 
and organize around the causes they care about. That mix of staff reporting and 
grassroots voices makes Daily Kos a genuinely community-owned space, shaped every
day by the millions of people who show up to participate.

When it came time to move twenty years of history onto WordPress VIP, the team at
[XWP](https://xwp.co/case-studies/daily-kos/) took on a migration of remarkable 
scale: 1.5 million posts, 2.7 million users, 88 million comments, and 1.4 million
images, all carried over from a custom legacy CMS without losing the participatory
culture that made the site special. The build pairs Gutenberg for flexible editorial
layouts with BuddyPress for community features, plus Viafoura for conversations 
and PostHog for analytics and experimentation. More than 500 community members joined
a public beta to help get it right. It’s a wonderful example of WordPress serving
not as a conventional newsroom tool, but as living, community-owned publishing infrastructure
that handles editorial work, member contributions, moderation, subscriptions, and
donations at an impressive scale.

Presented at WordCamp US 2026: [When the Platform Belongs to Its Users: Migrating Daily Kos at Scale](https://us.wordcamp.org/2026/session/when-the-platform-belongs-to-its-users-migrating-daily-kos-at-scale/)

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