Bridging the gap between editorial planning and live content workflows is a long-standing challenge for digital newsrooms. At Editorial Days 2025, Dzenita Vejsilovic, Head of Content Engineering at Glide Publishing Platform, introduced how Glide and Kordiam are tackling it together. 

The first phase of the integration is already live, with a clear goal in mind, to give editorial teams a unified way to plan, create, and publish content without jumping between disconnected systems. 

“When planning and publishing tools aren’t connected, it’s hard to track what’s coming or what’s delayed,” said Vejsilovic. “That creates missed deadlines and inconsistent output. This integration fixes that.” 

The Kordiam – Glide CMS Integration in Action 

The Kordiam and Glide CMS integration solves a common newsroom pain point by connecting planning and publishing in one seamless workflow. 

Now, when a story is created in Kordiam, it appears in Glide CMS as an article ready to be picked up and worked on. A link back to the article is saved in Kordiam, keeping everything tied together. 

“If you’re digital-first, you can connect all your platforms through Glide. Plan in Kordiam. Publish from Glide. No duplication,” said Vejsilovic. 

From Story Idea to Structured Article 

When a story moves from Kordiam into Glide CMS, it comes with corresponding metadata: Headline, description, author name, article type, and publication date and time. 

Inside Glide CMS, editors open each article in a workspace with two main sections. One section is for content creation, where they write and edit the story. The other is for production tasks, such as categorising, SEO, social sharing, and multi-channel publishing.  

Each article follows an article type, which acts like a predefined template. They include structured fields and formatting rules based on the kind of story being published, such as breaking news or feature stories. They help standardize content, reduce manual work, and keep publishing fast and consistent. 

Glide CMS also picks up SEO elements during the transfer. Fields like headline, standfirst, and author are reused to auto-populate SEO metadata. Editors don’t need to repeat steps or rewrite content to meet search best practices. 

Multi-Channel Distribution Made Easy 

Teams can push content from Glide CMS to other publication platforms like newsletters or print formats. You can automatically send content based on platforms the story is assigned to in Kordiam or make decisions manually inside the CMS. Either way, it saves time and reduces duplication. 

What’s Next 

Phase One of the integration is already in production. The next phase has teams working to expand data mapping. Phase Three will take it further by letting editors access Kordiam’s interface directly within Glide CMS using the external apps feature. 

Want to see the Glide CMS-Kordiam integration in action? Watch the full presentation recording