Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense.
2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times.
Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I feel like I should be adding many of your names here also.
The Elementor plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. It is also growing very fast, with huge numbers of new downloads every day.
This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single post with Elementor.
Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We've done it before many times using this approach, this approach and others.
We all know that local newspapers are in trouble. At least 25% of US papers have closed in the last 15 years. But there are also positive signs: if you look carefully, we're seeing many fresh, independent media projects.
These new projects are innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress. That last point really hit home when I was reading this article in the Los Angeles Times. All the newsrooms in the article are using WordPress. And so are all the organizations helping them grow.
In the middle of 2020, we acquired a plugin called “Advanced Gutenberg”.
It is a plugin that adds over 20 extra blocks to the Gutenberg interface, along with custom layouts, CSS styles, and permissions for blocks.
This week, we renamed the plugin to “PublishPress Blocks”. There's a couple of reasons for this change:
We often hear about old newspaper companies that are struggling. But there's a good chance that 2020 was a turning point for successful new journalists. If you look carefully, we're seeing many fresh, independent media projects.
The business model for these new projects is different. They are ditching corporate ownership in favor of a model that’s innovative, diverse, making money and overwhelmingly using WordPress.
We recently wrote about the edit_posts permission in WordPress.
This permission is incredibly powerful. The edit_posts permission controls access to at least 6 important writing features in WordPress:
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. With this plugin, you can create detailed author profiles that linked to WordPress users, or you can add guest authors.
Version 3.9 is now available for both the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Authors.
The main new feature in these releases is integration with the “Bulk Edit” feature of WordPress. This gives you the ability to quickly add authors to posts.
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user.
The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I'll show you two ways to do that.
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”?
We develop the PublishPress Revisions plugin that allows you to submit, moderate, approve, and schedule revisions.
This plugin is built on top of the core revisions feature in WordPress.
Our Revisions Pro plugin is able to capture all of the data that has changed in your WordPress posts. However, that is not true of the normal revisions feature.
