Canadian Crime Report
A hardened WordPress publishing system for editorial operations, paid access, newsletter growth, analytics, backups, and owner-managed handoff.
Engagement
Deployment, security, analytics, and handover
Sector
Digital Publishing
Stage
Subscription media platform
Client need
A hardened WordPress publishing system for editorial operations, paid access, newsletter growth, analytics, backups, and owner-managed handoff.
Kavora role
Kavora handled deployment architecture, security hardening, analytics setup, monetization support, and owner handoff.
Outcome
The client received a publication system built for paid access, daily editorial operations, and practical self-management.
The challenge
Canadian Crime Report needed more than a standard publication website. The platform had to support daily editorial publishing, paid reader access, newsletter capture, search visibility, operational backups, and routine updates by a non-technical owner. The risk was launching a site that looked complete but still depended on a developer for every article, subscriber change, DNS issue, security check, or recovery step.
Our solution
We shaped the work around the full publishing operation: infrastructure, monetization, editorial workflow, analytics, security, and handoff. The delivered stack uses Dockerized WordPress with Nginx, MariaDB, Redis object caching, SSL support, WP-CLI provisioning, backup scripts, and documented staging/production paths. On top of that, we prepared the metered paywall, Stripe subscription tiers, MailPoet newsletter setup, Zoho email guidance, Google News and SEO preparation, Cloudflare/DNS notes, analytics setup, Fail2ban guidance, security headers, rate limiting, and a practical owner handover guide.
What we delivered
Dockerized WordPress production stack with Nginx, MariaDB, Redis, WP-CLI, and SSL flow
Metered paywall and Stripe subscription setup for paid reader access
Newsletter, email, SEO, Google News, analytics, and Cloudflare/DNS guidance
Backup, maintenance, security-hardening, and troubleshooting documentation for the owner