In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, we talk with Chris Hardie, who is a software engineer with a deep interest in journalism. Chris worked for Automattic for five years and recently completed a master’s degree in journalism. In 2022, Chris combined these two passions by acquiring Western Wayne News in Wayne County, Indiana. The…
Andy Dehnart has run the Reality Blurred website for 25 years now. He writes about reality TV and now also about true crime TV shows. In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, Andy talks about his career as an independent reviewer, and how small publishers can still thrive in 2025. This episode features Andy, plus…
The PublishPress Future plugin allows you to schedule changes to posts, pages and other content types. With this plugin you can create automatic actions to unpublish, delete, trash, move a post to a new status and more. We’re also working on exciting new option called “Action Workflows” where you can update your content using custom…
Josh Koenig is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Pantheon. When scheduling this interview, I thought Josh was launching a tool called “Content Publisher” to connect Google Docs to WordPress. Given Josh’s previous achievements, I should have known better. Josh’s goals with this product are far bigger and more interesting. Content Publisher is the…
Welcome to episode #1 of the PublishPress podcast. In these podcast, we’re talk with people involved in WordPress publishing. You’ll hear interview with publishers who happen to be using WordPress, and also people in the WordPress space. In this first episode, we chat with Seth Rubenstein, Lead Engineer at the Pew Research Center. He’s been…
Welcome to the sixth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. We write these annual reviews for you, our customers. Thank you for all your investment in our work. We hope the reviews help you get a better understanding of our vision for these plugins….
PublishPress Capabilities 2.17 is out now. This is our final big release of 2024, and it’s a good one! If you’re using the free version of PublishPress Capabilities, you’ll see a new “Redirects” screen to control where users are sent when they log in and log out. If you’re using the Pro version, you will…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow user in one role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags. This was a great question that…
In the latest version of PublishPress Capabilities Pro, you can now rename, redesign and rearrange your WordPress admin menus. Previously, it was possible to control who could access each admin menu. Now you can change the name and icon for each menu link. You can also re-arrange the order of the links. This screenshot below…
By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there’s no need to hide them. However,…