Amber Hines from Equalize Digital has spent years helping publishers to make their websites more accessible and user-friendly for everyone, including those with disabilities. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, I ask Amber accessibility questions I’ve heard from publishers. For example, is it helpful to have an audio version of my articles? Should we…
Not everyone needs the same font size in the WordPress admin area. By default, almost all the text in WordPress is shown with a 13 pixel font. However, that font size may be too small for some users. Some people want larger text because they have aging eyes or vision conditions. Some people find that…
Here at PublishPress we believe that WordPress is the best publishing platform. Our goal is to help make it even better for you. To reach that goal, we plan to add several new plugins to PublishPress​ in 2026. You will get access to more small, medium and large plugins this year. PublishPress Shortlinks is the first of those…
We have a lot of guests on the PublishPress podcast who are building paywalls for publishers. Chris Ward from The Publisher Desk believes we should take a different direction. He argues that paywalls only make sense when you combine them with a strong commitment to advertising. Some users will just never pay for content, but…
WordPress 7.0 is coming soon, and it will be the biggest release in at least 10 years for the WordPress project. We’re really excited about Google Docs-style editing that allows you to make changes to WordPress posts at the same time as other people. With the explosive growth of AI in the last couple of…
Brian Coords is a Developer Advocate for WooCommerce. I invited Brian on the PublishPress podcast after seeing that AI is now listed as an official contributor to WooCommerce. We talk about what comes next for WooCommerce and other open source projects? Is AI going to be building new plugin features? Writing the documentation? Fixing long-standing…
Malcolm Peralty has been writing with WordPress since before version 1.0! That’s over 20 years of blogging! In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast we discuss how writing has powered Malcolm’s career, even now in the AI area. Malcolm thinks that storytelling is an essential skill, even for people in technical roles. We talk about…
Who can view the posts on your WordPress site? Normally you have only two choices: 1. Everyone can view (Published status)2. Only Administrators or Editors can view (Private status) That’s it! Those are normally the only two options in WordPress.
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast we welcome Derek Ashauer who runs Conversion Bridge. Google Analytics 4 is not a good platform. It’s hard to use. It’s not privacy-friendly. You can do better. Conversion Bridge can connect your WordPress site to over 20 different platforms including Plausible, Fathom, User Maven, Pirsch, Microsoft Clarity and…
Reusable Blocks / Synced Patterns are one of my favorite features in the WordPress block editor. They allow you to easily re-use content in multiple places across your site. However, WordPress does place access control limits on Reusable Blocks (that’s what I’ll call them in this post, although Synced Patterns is more commonly used). We…