WordPress sites can get really, really big. We regularly get questions from about sites with massive numbers of users. An example this week was site with over 500,000 users. The _user_meta table had grown to almost a million rows. Once your userbase gets this big, even the simple things get complicated. Yes, large sites will…
We’re excited to share some cool news about our most popular plugin, PublishPress Capabilities. This helpful tool gives you super-detailed control over who can do what on your WordPress site. PublishPress Capabilities now shows you the capabilities for many free and commercial plugins, from Yoast and Rank Math to Learn Dash and Gravity Forms.
This week, one PublishPress user asked us about an interesting WordPress problem. They could not see the “Author” dropdown option when they were writing posts. This screenshot below shows how the Author dropdown normally appears:
The Last Modified Date is a key feature on many websites. This can be a helpful feature if you want people to know when the post was updated. I’ve seen this used for news articles, documentation, and even legal and technical information. The Last Modified Date does not appear by default on most WordPress sites….
PublishPress Statuses is a new plugin that we’ve been working on for almost a year. Previously, we’ve had some support for custom statuses in other plugins including PublishPress Planner and PublishPress Permissions. However, custom statuses are a really important feature for WordPress publishers. We’ve had numerous requests to improve how statuses work in WordPress. So…
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
There are several ways to remove users from your WordPress site, or prevent them from accessing the admin area. For example, you can choose to change the user’s account to “No role for this site“. If you change this setting, the user will be able to log in to your site. And they will be…
The latest version of PublishPress Blocks has a submenu for “Synced Patterns”. This feature was previously called “Reusable Blocks”. This submenu allows you to reach the “Synced Patterns” / “Reusable blocks” page screen that is normally difficult to find in WordPress. These patterns are an incredibly useful feature in the Gutenberg block editor. They allow…
Today we are pleased to announce much improved Composer support for PublishPress plugins. Composer is a tool that developers can use to manage plugins or entire WordPress sites. Previously, it was possible to install the free version of our plugins with Composer. But it was more difficult to install the Pro versions of the plugins….
If you go to the “Users” screen in WordPress, you will be able to assign users to normal roles, such as Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, and Administrator. However, there is another option called “No role for this site”. You can think of this option as a type of blocking option. Any users who are moved…