PublishPress Authors 4.6 is now available, and it has several improvements to make the plugin easier to use. When you install this update, you’ll find a new block so you can quickly add author profiles to the Gutenberg block editor. You’ll also see a much better way to add icons to Author Boxes. For example,…
CivicPress is aiming to bring the Gutenberg block editor to the US government. CivicPress was built by the team at Lone Rock Point, an agency in Boston. This is a Full Site Editing theme and is built according to the standards of the US Web Design System (USWDS). That system was created about 10 years…
One of our key goals for this year is to build SaaS-style features in WordPress so you don’t need an extra service to plan your content. Why use Trello, ClickUp, Notion, or other products when you already have WordPress? We’ve just completed another step towards that goal with the release of “Content Board”. This is…
Over the last few years, customers have sent in many feature requests for PublishPress. Some of those are requests unique to one person. Others are sent in by dozens of customers, and we try really hard to build those features! Top of the feature request list has always been an activity log. People want to…
Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen several interesting new publishers who have launched with the help of Lede. Lede is an offshoot from a WordPress agency called Alley Interactive. They aim to be both a platform and a business incubator. They’ve helped launch several projects with unique approaches to publishing and business. We’ve…
About four years ago, I wrote about The 19th. I came across their work because they’re a PublishPress customer. One thing about the 19th that’s particularly interesting for WordPress users is their overlap with open-source ideas.
A few months ago, I was talking with a PublishPress customer. They use our plugins, but also rely on an external service to plan their content. That’s not unusual. We’ve heard from WordPress people who use Google Docs, ClickUp, Notion, and other tools. In most cases, the feedback was that the WordPress interface was too…
If you write blog posts in your browser, you have probably had the gut-wrenching experience of losing content. Maybe your browser crashed. Perhaps your internet connection dropped. But when you went back to your post, your content was missing. Ouch! Fortunately, autosaves are a WordPress feature that can help you avoid losing your content.
Have you ever seen the words “Reviewed by” next to a blog post? It’s becoming increasingly common for publishers to do this and give credit to more than one person. In this image below you can see the main author is shown next to “Written by”. There’s also another user who is shown next to…
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…