A laptop placed under striped shadows displaying the homepage of the Santa Barbara Independent website, featuring a news article about immigration resources and a sidebar with various local news categories.

Supporting Santa Barbara’s Leading News Source

The Santa Barbara Independent is the leading source for news, arts & entertainment, and lifestyle coverage in the greater Santa Barbara area.

Overview

Every Thursday more than 40,000 copies of the paper are printed and content is also published daily online for more than 250,000 monthly readers. The Santa Barbara Independent is also the critical source of information during wildfires, mudslides, oil spills, and other disasters.

Challenges

Transforming Community News with a Scalable Digital Solution.

We partnered with the Santa Barbara Independent to migrate their existing online platform to a WordPress VIP hosted solution. Complete with long-form articles, multimedia, events, and a local directory of businesses, the new Santa Barbara Independent website has been the go-to resource for daily updates in the community.

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