Glide CMS + Kordiam: Connecting planning to publishing

Glide CMS and Kordiam help connect the planning, production, and publishing processes to save time and reduce disruption.

Published: 09:13, 04 July 2025

Behind every successful published story lies a web of coordination and collaboration, as well as getting the timing just right - a host of moving parts brought together at just the right time. 

It's a challenge growing more complex by the day. Content and audiences are scattered across multiple channels and devices, teams are spread across time zones, while every publishing and media business has a slightly different set of needs than the next. 

But without a shared view of what’s planned or delayed, teams can fall into chaos: duplicated work, missed deadlines, and broken workflows that frustrate both editors and audiences.

Glide Publishing Platform and Kordiam have come together to change that - connecting planning and publishing environments to help teams work in unity and keep everything on track. 

In this article, we break down how real people in real jobs can use Kordiam's integration with Glide CMS to hit real goals, and how specific features from both platforms help users achieve what they actually care about.

Assign the right story to the right writer

For section editors who need a smooth way to delegate stories.

Coming up with story ideas is challenging enough, but getting them to the right person for that idea to become something more is where the rubber hits the road. Traditional workflows still rely heavily on meetings, emails, spreadsheets or messages - all of which are time consuming and can lead to things being overlooked. With Kordiam integrated into your editorial process, your workflows are coordinated in one system.

Assign stories and tasks, set deadlines, and track progress in one clear Kordiam workspace

Story ideas can see their genesis in Kordiam, where editors can assign tasks to writers, the business can set deadlines, and disparate teams can see what’s in motion.

• On story approval or acceptance in Kordiam, the article moves instantly into Glide CMS, where writers pick up articles pre-tagged with their byline or author profile.
• Assignments are clear, tracked, and easier to align with your broader strategy.

Collaborate on headlines before the CMS

For editors, SEOs, and marketing/social leads who want high-performing headlines.

Headlines can make or break an article’s performance. If their sign-off happens late in the process, it causes unnecessary friction between teams and can lead to rushed rewrites which delays publication speed. This integration between systems means headlines and any headline changes made ahead of publication time will be picked up automatically by Glide CMS for the relevant article, without editorial teams needing to re-enter or manually update them later.

• In Kordiam, headline collaboration happens early, giving early alignment on tone, SEO, and social intent.
• Glide CMS picks up headline titles automatically, and any rewritten headlines are seamlessly synced.
• Stronger, more consistent headlines, and fewer headline-related delays or rework.

Real-time visibility into progress

For managing editors tracking multiple pieces without chasing updates.

Managing a newsroom means juggling dozens of stories, each at different stages, with different people responsible. Keeping tabs on everything is a constant hassle, often relying on Slack messages or spreadsheets. With Glide CMS and Kordiam, you get instant, synced visibility on progress without the manual follow-ups.

• Kordiam shows a real-time story pipeline with assignments, statuses, and deadlines.

Real-time story pipeline with assignments, statuses, and deadlines - all in one place

• Glide CMS pulls that data through to the editorial workspace so everyone sees what’s happening.

All your article details - taxonomies, SEO, timed publishing, and multi-channel publishing platforms - clearly laid out in Glide CMS

• Less time spent chasing progress, more time focused on quality content, with full transparency across content and deadlines.

Enforce SEO strategy across a whole team

For leadership, SEO leads, and digital editors rolling out new SEO rules across a large editorial team.

A massive part of editorial leadership's job is enforcing new SEO strategies across teams as algorithms and audience habits change. A major blocker to adopting a new SEO strategy at speed across an organisation is the difficulty of keeping everyone on the same page with changes. If only you could apply critical business rules in one place well before your writers and contributors ever write a thing. With Glide CMS and Kordiam, you can.

• Kordiam lets you define taxonomy and metadata that will be picked up by Glide CMS when the story is first pitched.
• Glide CMS carries those rules through to writing, so writers know what to do and what not to change.
• Cleaner, more consistent SEO implementation across all content with far less editorial rework.

Smoother multi-channel publishing

For content managers who want to distribute stories across multiple channels seamlessly and on schedule.

A seamless connection from Kordiam to Glide brings planning and execution closer together to manage complex workflows and publishing strategies with minimal effort. Plan all your content in Kordiam and send to Glide to distribute to multiple channels - to websites, apps, syndication partners, print CMS, voice - wherever the audiences are.

• Kordiam coordinates deadlines, publication platforms and times (akin to channel rules in Glide), pushing stories straight into the CMS.
• Glide CMS lets users publish to multiple outputs from a single interface, with channel-specific formatting pre-set.
• Simplified multi-channel publishing reduces duplicated effort, improves timeliness, and extends audience reach.

Get a clear content oversight

For senior leaders who want a high-level view of all content status and pipeline without managing day-to-day editorial work.

Not everyone needs to be hands-on in a CMS or planning tool, but stakeholders need visibility on content progress and upcoming workloads. Glide CMS and Kordiam enable this with flexible content queues visible in Glide, and a clear view of all planned content in Kordiam. And with Glide’s External Apps feature, you can also pull the Kordiam interface directly into Glide, giving you one unified view of planning and publishing. Two birds with one stone.

• Kordiam shows the big picture: what’s coming, when, where and who’s involved.
• Glide CMS provides editorial queues and dashboards, no extra logins required.

Clear editorial queues and content progress on the Glide Dashboard with Glide CMS’s Content Queues

• Better transparency for management, clear task lists for writers, and fewer access barriers for oversight.

Set up editorial guardrails

For editorial leads who want to maintain quality and compliance standards without micromanagement.

Ensuring mandatory fields, tagging standards, and approval workflows are followed, reduces errors and keeps standards high, but too often enforcing these rules means slowdowns and frustration. Glide CMS puts up these guardrails early in the process.

• Kordiam helps by assigning clear tasks early in the workflow, like adding a promo headline in Glide or inputting structured data fields relevant to the content type.
• Glide CMS enforces article-type logic and can block progression until all key requirements are met.
• Consistent editorial quality with minimal overhead for leadership.

Plan major events without the scramble 

For planning editors and anyone responsible for big editorial moments.

From elections to festivals, a newsroom without a plan scrambles. The difference is having your coverage mapped out - before things go live.

• Kordiam lets you create an overview of your overarching themes, for example elections, sports events or topics of general interest such as mobility or housing. You can assign early roles, outline deadlines, and map out your related content to cover all angles.
• When pieces are greenlit, they move into Glide CMS for execution with zero duplication of effort.
• High-stakes coverage delivered calmly, with clear responsibilities.

Clearer publishing with Glide CMS and Kordiam

Glide CMS and Kordiam bring greater visibility and collaboration across the entire content lifecycle, helping connect editorial planning with content production.

• Let more stakeholders see what is in flight and make key publishing decisions without adding noise to workflows.
• Organise, track, and adjust stories and their workflows while being able to visualise longer term newsroom strategies.
• Push content straight from Kordiam into Glide CMS for editing, previewing, and sending to multiple channels and audiences.
• Align editorial, SEO, marketing, commercial, and production teams with real-time visibility across the entire content lifecycle.

Plan in Kordiam. Publish with Glide CMS. Stay focused on quality storytelling.

Ready to see Glide CMS in action? Book a demo to speak to a Glide product specialist, and learn more about our integration with Kordiam.