The Challenge
Estepona's international community had no single, regularly updated source for local news. Coverage was scattered across several Spanish and English-language outlets, none of them dedicated specifically to Estepona, making it hard for residents and newcomers alike to stay informed about what was happening in the town.
The Solution
Creation Internet Services designed and built Estepona News, a WordPress-based platform that automatically aggregates local news from multiple trusted sources — including Sur in English, Euro Weekly News, Diario Sur's Estepona/Manilva section, Estepona Info, and Estepona Town Hall's own announcements — and publishes them through a moderated review pipeline.
Automated Pipeline
Articles are fetched, rewritten, and held as drafts for review before publishing, running on an automated schedule every few hours.
Multiple Sources
Coverage drawn from several English and Spanish local outlets, plus the town hall's own announcements, for a genuinely complete picture.
Reader Newsletter
A daily email digest keeps subscribers up to date without needing to check the site themselves.
Built Bespoke, Not from a Template
Estepona News runs on a custom-built WordPress theme, designed specifically to give the site a distinctive newspaper look and feel, rather than adapted from an off-the-shelf design. Behind it sits a custom-built WordPress plugin, purpose-written to handle the entire news pipeline — fetching articles from multiple sources, rewriting them, and holding them for review before anything is published.
This is the same approach we bring to client work: when a standard theme or plugin can't do what your business actually needs, we build exactly what will.
The Results
- A dedicated, always-current news source for Estepona's English-speaking community
- Coverage consolidated from multiple outlets into one convenient place
- A fully automated publishing pipeline requiring minimal day-to-day maintenance
- A daily digest keeping subscribers informed without extra effort
Key Takeaway
A well-built automated pipeline can deliver genuine, consistent value to a community — Estepona now has a dedicated local news source that didn't exist before, updating itself around the clock.