Single source of truth: publish once, trust it everywhere

For most organisations, this is just how things are done: a news post here, a PDF there, a copy‑paste into an email – and then a scramble to keep it all consistent.

But there’s a better way.

Duplication is draining your team

Every time you retype or re‑upload the same content, you introduce risk.

• Typos slip through.
• Outdated versions hang around.
• Staff waste hours checking and cross‑checking.

That’s not just frustrating – it’s expensive. The more times your team has to touch the same piece of information, the more likely something will be missed.

A single source of truth

This is exactly what it sounds like: one place where the “real” version of a piece of content lives.

Instead of creating five versions of an event announcement, you create it once. From there, it can be pulled into your homepage, your events calendar, even your newsletter.

Your team works from that one version – and every change updates across the board.

Publish once. Trust it everywhere. Reuse with confidence.

Reuse with purpose

This isn’t about plastering the same block of text everywhere. It’s about controlled reuse.

• The full event description lives on the event page.
• The homepage only shows the title and date.
• A listing block pulls a summary into your newsletter sign‑up page.

You save time while making sure each piece of content shows up where it’s useful – and only where it’s useful.

How Juizi builds for it

Plone makes this simple. Content types give each kind of information its own home, and blocks make it easy to display that information anywhere you need it.

We’ve seen it work in practice.

For the Dullah Omar Institute, we created a workflow that always leads back to a single News section, even though the site's multiple micro-site like layout has different news listings. (Plone's tagging makes quick work of this. It also means that one article can appear over numerous different projects.)

When your website is designed to be the single source of truth, your Editors spend less time patching up loose ends – and more time creating the content that matters.

A final thought

If your team spends more time duplicating content than creating it, it’s not just annoying. It’s a sign your website isn’t pulling its weight.

Maybe it’s time to build a site that works like your team does: one version, clear updates, and no copy‑paste chaos.